Southern Poverty Law Center
Nov 5, 2024 · We are dedicated to creating a world where Black and Brown communities are not just represented but deeply respected by our democracy. Our vision extends to a future where the scourges of white supremacy, poverty, and mass incarceration are eradicated.
A Major Cause of Rural Southern Poverty
Aug 16, 2017 · A Major Cause of Rural Southern Poverty. August 16, 2017. It's no secret that the Southern "Black Belt" and Mississippi Delta are among the poorest places in the country. Less widely known is what many experts believe is a root cause of this entrenched poverty: a phenomenon known as heirs' property. Heirs' property results when a landowner dies ...
Why is the American South Poorer? | Social Forces - Oxford …
Dec 12, 2019 · While American poverty research has devoted greater attention to poverty in the Northeast and Midwest, poverty has been persistently higher in the U.S. South than in the other regions. Thus, this study investigates the enduring question of why poverty is higher in the South.
The Surprising Poverty Levels Across the U.S. | TIME
Oct 4, 2023 · The U.S. poverty level is now $13,590 for individuals and $23,030 for a family of three. The new data shows that 37.9 million people lived in poverty in 2022. America had previously experienced...
How the geography of U.S. poverty has shifted since 1960
Sep 10, 2015 · A new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data finds that the South continues to be home to many of America’s poor, though to a lesser degree than a half-century ago. In 1960, half (49%) of impoverished Americans lived in the South. By 2010, that share had dropped to 41%.
What went wrong with the South? - Facing South
Nov 3, 2015 · News stories that ask what went wrong with the South too often fail to capture the context of its intergenerational poverty: centuries of enslavement and systemic discrimination that resulted in the immense racial disparities we see today. And it's not just a Southern problem — it's an American one.
What's Wrong With the South? - U.S. News & World Report
Sep 18, 2014 · The national poverty rate declined to 14.5 in 2013 from 15 percent in 2012, the first time it's fallen since 2006. But the picture is far gloomier in the South, which at 16.1 percent, had...
Capitalism and (under)development in the American South - Aeon
Apr 2, 2024 · Today, one-fifth of the South’s counties are marred with the ‘persistent poverty’ designation, meaning they have had poverty rates above 20 per cent for more than 30 years. Four-fifths of all persistently poor counties in the nation are in …
Southern poverty gets the United Nations' attention
Jul 11, 2018 · In a report presented to the United Nations' Human Rights Council last month, the U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty called attention to the tremendous scale and consequences of poverty in the United States — and particularly in the U.S. South.
Rural Poverty Has Distinct Regional and Racial Patterns
Aug 9, 2021 · 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).