Mapping Poverty in America

The New York Times provides an excellent visualization of the distribution of officially-defined poverty in the U.S. The interactive map allows users to drill down from poverty at the state to ultimately census tract levels, showing numbers and percent of poor within given units.

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Date Added to MERLOT: March 02, 2014

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MATTHEW BLOCH

The New York Times

MATTHEW ERICSON

The New York Times

TOM GIRATIKANON

The New York Times

Submitter: michael miller

Keywords: map, poverty, New York Times

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