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Nonmetro
poverty rates higher than metro
Timothy
Parker
The nonmetro poverty
rate has exceeded the metro rate every
year since poverty was first officially
measured in the 1960s. Generally, metro
and nonmetro poverty follow the same
trends over time. The nonmetro poverty
rate fell through the 1970s, and then
both metro and nonmetro poverty rates
began to increase with the 1980-82 recession.
In the early 1990s, poverty rates began
to fall, but since 2000 they have begun
to edge up. Poverty estimates from 2006,
the most recent year available, show
the metro-nonmetro gap increasing, with
nonmetro poverty at 15.2 percent and
metro at 11.8 percent.
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