2) The most impressive, it's the spatial concentration of poverty.
Concentration of poverty has been linked to higher crime, worse health, and low economic prospects.
*Two regions accounted for most of the change in the concentration of poverty.
"They tip it from working class and middle class and into a concentration of poverty.
"We've seen a greater concentration of poverty in inner-ring suburbs in recent years".
It is assumed that a concentration of poverty reproduces a lack of social opportunities.
The Census Bureau has not issued any studies on the concentration of poverty based on the 2000 census.
"Title I has been targeted on poverty, not on individual students, on the concentration of poverty," Mr. Kennedy said.
Other skeptics would agree, pointing out that the concentration of poverty in many cities has continued to rise.
Gaza is a place that Israel wishes it could ignore: the territory has long had the highest concentration of poverty, extremism, and hopelessness in the region.
Instead they are often found in neighborhoods that are already struggling with higher than average levels of poverty, further increasing the concentration of poverty.
