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Local Government Officials' Assessments of Community Poverty in ...


Local Government Officials' Assessments of Community Poverty in ...

Local government leaders in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (U.P.) are more likely to report significant unmet needs among their residents for anti-poverty ...

Local Government Officials' Assessments of Community Poverty in ...

UP leaders consistently report higher unmet needs for anti-poverty resources compared to their counterparts downstate.

Local Government Officials' Assessments of Community Poverty in ...

Local government leaders in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (U.P.) are more likely to report significant unmet needs among their residents for ...

Poverty in the United States: 2023 - U.S. Census Bureau

This report provides estimates of two measures of poverty: the official poverty measure and the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM).

Overview of Community Characteristics in Areas With Concentrated ...

An official website of the United States government. Here's how you ... community members' definitions of the local residential area of influence.

Understanding Neighborhood Effects of Concentrated Poverty

Since the rise of inner-city poverty in the United States, researchers have sought to interpret the dynamic between neighborhood and residents in communities of ...

How Poverty in the United States Is Measured and Why It Matters

Today, there are two versions of the official poverty measure: 1) Poverty thresholds, produced by the U.S. Census Bureau, and 2) Federal poverty ...

Income and Poverty - U.S. Census Bureau

A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. ... 2020 Census 2026 Census Test 2030 Census American Community Survey ...

Government's Pandemic Response Turned a Would-Be Poverty ...

Unlike the official poverty measure, the SPM counts income from ... Unpublished CBPP analysis of 2017-2019 American Community Survey data.

Social policy and local governance | UNICEF

Local governments play a key role providing essential services to children. Whether in urban or rural settings, they help connect girls and boys to ...

How the Poor Can Have a Voice in Government Policy

In formulating poverty reduction strategies, policymakers have begun consulting the poor directly through participatory poverty assessments (PPAs), a ...

The Supplemental Poverty Measure: Its Core Concepts ...

It also does not consider taxes paid to federal, state, or local governments ... The official poverty measure captures only those government ...

Empowering the Poor - Local Governance for Poverty Reduction

only local elected representatives, but also the entire community. The English translation 'local authorities' or 'local government' does not convey “the idea ...

Assessing Excellence Poorly: The Bottom Line in Local Government

mistaken for service quality. In the most sensitive attention to assessment of effectiveness, city and county officials conduct surveys of residents' attitudes ...

OCS Programs | The Administration for Children and Families

Community Services Block Grant (CSBG). CSBG funds states and local organizations to deploy local solutions that alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty.

The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) and Children - SSA

Using public-use microdata files recently released by the Census Bureau, we compare and contrast the poverty estimates for 2012 produced under the official ...

Can the Poor Influence Policy? Participatory Poverty Assessments in ...

the local government level, where officials expressed a great deal of ... * When sharing a report with government policymakers, include local communities who ...

How is poverty measured?

The U.S. Census Bureau is the government agency in charge of measuring poverty. To do so, it uses two main measures, the Official Poverty Measure (OPM) and the ...

A Community Action Guide to Comprehensive Community Needs ...

leaders in partner organizations and local elected officials ... The most likely choices are county or local government- created reports on poverty and economic ...

Economic Security Programs Reduce Overall Poverty, Racial and ...

While government programs have done much to narrow these disparities in poverty, further progress will require stronger government efforts ...