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Mapping The Rising Poverty Of The U.S.
Concentrated poverty in the neighborhoods of the nation's largest urban cores has exploded since the 1970s.
The number of high poverty neighborhoods has tripled and the number of poor people in those neighborhoods has doubled according to a report released by City Observatory...
As Gizmodo explains, the following maps created by Palmer use red and green arrows to indicate growth in wealth and poverty between 1970 and 2010. Green lines point down to indicate a decrease in poverty, while red lines slope up to represent a growth in poverty. Their length indicates the size of the change.
As City Observatory concludes,
To be poor anywhere is difficult enough, but a growing body of evidence shows the negative effects of poverty are amplified for those who live in high-poverty neighborhoods - places where 30 percent or more of the population live below the poverty line. Quality of life is worse, crime is higher, public services are weaker, and economic opportunity more distant in concentrated poverty neighborhoods.
Critically, concentrated poverty figures prominently in the inter-generational transmission of inequality: children growing up in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty have permanently impaired economic prospects.
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Read the full dismal report here (and remember stocks are at record highs and initial jobless claims at 40 year lows)...PDF here
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While there are obvious patterns of green and red in very city, the overall trend is telling: poverty is very much on the rise.
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ya fucking think?
A "Poor" American is like a king in some other countries.
But not for long. The race to the bottom is gathering pace.
Many years ago, an English friend pointed out to me, that the American "poor" have refrigerators the size of European cars.
We're supposed to be surprised that there are growing ranks of the poor when we're brining in 10 million new impoverished immigrants ervery year?
Plus we pay people on welfare to have babies.
Plus we pay IsraHell to kill Palestinians for sports while nurturing their Apartheid system>>
What kind of idiot could "vote your comment down"? Love to hear the "reasoning" behind that...Great comment though.
The data is from 2010 and is already obsolete unless they can compare what happened in the past 5 years.
My guess is that things got much worse.
The best way to get rid of Palestinians is to CARPET BOMB them. Then send in the local cats to eat their guts out. Here Kitty, Fresh Meat. As for the Brick Throwers, I recommend Shot Guns, then Canaan Dogs can have lunch.
The above is proof and an example of why Israel should be NUKED
But first, insist all Jewish people be called "home." Israel, the Land of the Scam and the Home of the Thieves.
Got sand in your vagina hasbara?
That must be a blast racing around in the wrong lane in a 4 banger frig!
Even better, you can fuel the thing with cold marmite and vinegar.
How bad is your food when you can improve the taste by adding vinegar??
--Gaffigan.
What a fucking ridiculous exercise in absurdity. When it comes down to the fucking crunch, all these "poor" will have to join the armed forces or else.
American poverty would be much worse if it weren't for its armed forces employing hundreds of thousands of men and women "full time".
Bull S***, there are no lines at the recruting stations!
Attention 3rd world nations. UNIONS STRIKING willl lead you to the middle class lifestyle you have always wanted. Don't let the collapse of America take you down (to lower standards). Roman slaves were not permitted to wear the same uniforms lest they realize their strenght in sheer number.
My grandpa slept in a cot in the back the the grocery he worked at at 80 years old, a pension of 18.00 a month - 1940 Canada, farmer. But his daughter became the wife of the man who started The National Paint Company from the ground fucking up. And unlike today's rich, he earned it by honoring his contracts.
Fuck you
another divide and conquer article, move along
Don't worry, this will all get fixed by Obama's HUD directive to make all neighborhoods equal. You know, spread the bad around so everyone will get their fair share.
Problem is that by doing that very thing you make every place a bad place and people just sell and move out to the semi-rural areas where there's no city to take Fed dollars so there's no threat of being told who has to live there or what has to be built.
These idiots never seriously consider the consequences of their actions...I mean really, you don't see further abandonment of cities because of this?
I gots my E B T....
Now I know where Goldman gets their swirlogram.
Nobody does chart porn like Nanex.
+1 Its true.
These look like brain scans.
We don't just live in affluent or impoverished neighborhoods, but through our choices create them. And there is little to show that our neighborhoods change our decisions, but only perhaps the consequences of those decisions.
The more poor we can get poor the more cops we can hire to fire (that's knock'em down economics).
Solution: Go be poor somewhere else.
B...bu...but the economy is doing great and excellent well-paying jobs are everywhere. The USA is at nearly full employment.
"B...bu...but the economy is doing great and excellent well-paying jobs are everywhere. The USA is at nearly full employment."
Yeah, sure, love your sarcasm but I reiterate: without the armed forces, US unemployment rate would be as bad as Europe's - statistically.
Thank you LBJ.
And his helpmate Teddy "the swimmer".
In Massachusetts we call him Dead Ted!
War on poverty is a great success just like the war on drugs. What are y'all talkin' about? Another 50 years and we will have have it under control. We just haven't allocated enough resources. As for the war on terror, look what a flaming success that is. (sarc. on)
WOoooHOooo! New Hampshire isn't even on the map!
I think I can see my 16 week babies head and legs in the one named Tampa. These fetal pics are amazing.
And the angry demon's head that's about chestburst out of Detroit will kill us all. Runnnn...
Your not kidding on Detroit. I'm surprised there isnt a crap load of Sharia "no go zones", like there is in France.
Good grief, just look at Rochester.
The peak in our standard of living happened in the early 70's. The decline started when Nixon took us off the gold standard and started the distruction of the dollar. Other policies that fueled the great credit expansion were suppose to make us all wealthier. Instead, we have the largest gap between the haves and have nots in our history with a poverty rate that is a national embarrasment.
You're absoutely right. That's when politicions could spend without limit to buy votes with "targeted" programs.
Cut off their god-damned water and electricity. I wanna know if they have a competitive spirit!
Very little to glean from the pictograms. Much of the reddish grow could be all those illegals being invited in to pump up the incessant call to beat those greedy taxpayers into paying their "fair share."
Wow! Look at all the new members of the "gimme Free Stuff" Generation!
(A.K.A. democrat voters)
I could write a book on the explosion of poverty in the small towns & villages here in South Central Wisconsin.
The small villages supported the surrounding family farms for generations. As Big Ag and monoculture farming took over, the family farms disappeared and the farm families disappeared with them. The supporting villages have suffered terribly. The grain elevator, feed mill, railroad depot, general store, Post Office, bank, restaurants, gas station, and primary school are all abandoned. The only businesses left are two bars and a coin-op laundromat. The houses are occupied by people living on welfare or Social Security and have fallen into utter disrepair. The villages have no commerce and very little real estate taxes to work with. The roads are crumbling and the municipal water system is on its last. The substantial stone churches (Catholic, Protestant, Baptist) are timeless structures but the congregations are very small.
It's very sad. There's no future, just grinding poverty.
But it takes a village! haha .....sorry I couldn't resist
The smart ones stayed even tho. I wouldn't want to be in a city when this BS blows apart like a 90,000,000,000lb. turd stuffed with 5000 nukes (that's a 300 million 300lb fat slob average).
+ 100 Thanks for the post itstippy. Loud and clear.
Are you sure you are not describing Gloucester,Ma?
Thats because the youth have all been lured into the cities by jobs as professional video gamers.
Well this goverment tripped over a jew queer notion of intelligence that doesn't exist . Anyone else want to give leading (haha) a shot? My votes going to the alien predator creature because he doesn't play fag/money/coward games (you know where you stand).
"Jew Queer", what an ass you are, play right into their hands, moron. Jews pit American against American, and idiots like you, who are more interested in hating, than in thinking buy right into it, good job traitor.
Zionism is the surge of this nation, and stupid trolls like you allow it because you are far more interested in hating your fellow American than you are going hat is right or just. FU
I guess jew told me.
Oasis of green in NYC and DC. What're the odds?
EDIT: And Homoville, CA up north.
Hillary and Donald have gotten excessively wealthy while millions of Citizens feel into abject poverty.
Do you think that if these impoverished Citizens vote Hillary and/or Donald into high office that Hillary and/or Donald will use their skills to lift the Citizenry out of poverty -or just grab even more for themselves and their cronies?
I thought so...
Well to be honest imo, the Clinton's have never had a business and never had to worry about a single person other than themselves. Trump, regardless of his success record has had to meet payrolls.
I find it difficult to understand how people consider a person who constantly declares bankruptcy measure him as a success.
Bankruptcy is a business tool - just like borrowing, stock sale, reorganization and mergers. It serves a useful purpose and is set up to do so. Preventing a business from going into bankruptcy is, contrary to some stooges in government, a bad thing. "Too big to fail" is the idiotic excuse.
Arthur:I find it difficult to understand how people consider a person who constantly declares bankruptcy measure him as a success.
Then you must also find it difficult for a broke ass nation like USA to declare itself a success. We're 170 T in a fucking hole. Rally on!
Trickle down economics always trickles up.
See?
If you overlaid an ethnicity map on top of this it would be an almost perfect match.
Exactly. There are a shitload of poor, impoverished whites living in overpriced apartments in urban cities and their numbers are growing every day.
You can downvote me all you want.
I would suggest you watch the thousands... the throngs... of whites who are showing up to support Bernie Sanders at his speeches in these cities.
You can't simply stick your head in the sand and avoid the obvious.
Poland jew hasn't been the answer yet.
Lately, people seem to be realizing all of these people aren't showing up to support a socialist but are supporting a rebellion.
What's the currency exchange on rebellions? I'll have to check them out.
I'm not sure if there is a currency exchange on rebellions. Reckon we'll have to go to Las Vegas to determine the odds on it?
Detroit looks like a blood guyser of red, as expected. 'TIS BUT A FLESH WOUND!
What is it repubicans say, "bootstraps, go get a job."
This doubles as a heat map for finding cheap titty bars.
Have guillotine, am rich.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
"Be bery, bery quiet: I'm hunting bankster."
Who paid for these maps? Are the banksters keeping track of the effectiveness of their actions?
Keep the flood gates open, we need more illegals from Mexico. We are not turning Mexican immigrants into Americans, they are turning the US into Mexico.
Trickle down economics working like a charm trickling down economic misery from above and transfer assets from the below to the top
The Red State Update did this video back in 2009.
These hard right winger rednecks knew this shit all the way back then, and now all you hard right winger rednecks ought to start paying attention to what these guys were trying to tell you all the way back in 2009!!!
AIG Executive Talks
And now... its too goddamn late to do anything about it!
Last year, the Republican congress set up Shimmy Sham the AIG executive, and he done fucked all of our asses, and there ain't a damn thing you or I am gonna do about it.
Shimmy Sham don't care... he don't give a fuck about you.
You believe left and right are relevant, acceptable terms. As they are currently used they are neither. You are a fool.
How did you think everybody is going to compete with China & Co? Empoverishment, that's how. There won't be any nukes flying, just a slow grind lower until we reach equilibrium. Illegals are flooding but that's a plan!
Dupe. Fucking Chinese phones lol
"Concentrated poverty in the neighborhoods of the nation's largest urban cores has exploded since the 1970s"
Obama wants to spread that concentrated poverty to the suburbs, with his affirmatively housing program.
This country - in which I was born and still love - has become a shithole for one reason and one reason only: shithole polititians selling out their votes to the highest bidder.
When I was a kid - in 1971 I was 17 - I said the US government was probably one of the most corrupt in history.
It's only gotten worse since then.
Our best, last hope is a complete change from where we've been. Put a non-polititian in the White House. That would be the Donald. If he doesn't win, the country will continue its downward spiral and probably accelerate.
Trump must be the next president unless a better non-polititian choice appears, but I doubt that's going to happen.
Besides hoping somebody will turn the federal government around, the local ones aren't so hot either. Find a good place to hide, low taxes, etc., and grow your own food (that is a must), become self-sufficient (solar, wind, small hydro) and get out of the way of the coming tsunami of debt and corruption.
who/how determines impoverished? food stamps? unemployment? gov programs are full of so much fraud that maps/stats based on them are useless
HomObamma is leading America into a Homo Heaven :
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(Just like in some countries)
People live in sewers
People are drug addicted
People become homosexuals
They would sell their body for food & drugs
They would only come out on surface when they need to forage in garbage dumps & dust bins or for funeral of their kind.
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While the richie rich cabals will live in mansions & have private jets
I believe the author's argument is true, but those "pictograms" are worthless. They cannot be enlarged sufficiently to be legible and they are extremely confusing to decypher.
Lets not talk about raising minimum wage. We need more poor Amercans. "SERF-IN U.S.A." (hum to Beach Boys tune)
...it's the petri dish view of north american culture.