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Rural Poverty Has Distinct Regional and Racial Patterns

Farrigan, Tracey

2021

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Title

Rural Poverty Has Distinct Regional and Racial Patterns

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A USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) study of poverty in the United States identified 310 counties—10 percent of all U.S. counties—with high and persistent levels of poverty in 2019. Of those, 86 percent or 267 counties were rural (nonmetro). Moreover, those rural counties were concentrated in historically poor areas of the Mississippi Delta, Appalachia, the Black Belt, and the southern border regions, as well as on Native American lands.

Author(s)

Farrigan, Tracey

Subject(s)

Community/Rural/Urban Development
Consumer/Household Economics
Crop Production/Industries
Financial Economics
Food Security and Poverty
Public Economics

Issue Date

8/9/2021

Publication Type

Journal Article

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.313058

Record Identifier

https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/313058

ISSN

1545-8741

Language

English

Published in

Amber Waves: The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America

Volume

2021

Issue

08

Record Appears in

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) > Economic Research Service > Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America

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