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In spite of having one of the highest average incomes in the industrialized world, the United States has one of the highest poverty rates (Iceland 2006; Smeeding et al. 2001). It is generally accepted that social and economic factors underlie patterns of poverty within the United States. Taken as a...
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| Summary: | In spite of having one of the highest average incomes in the industrialized world, the United States has one of the highest poverty rates (Iceland 2006; Smeeding et al. 2001). It is generally accepted that social and economic factors underlie patterns of poverty within the United States. Taken as a whole, previous research has identified industrial structure and racial/ethnic composition as key social-structural contributors to local-area poverty (e.g., Cohn |
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