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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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New York Times, map, poverty
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Material Type:
Learning Object Repository
Date Added to MERLOT:
March 2, 2014
Date Modified in MERLOT:
March 9, 2018
Author:
MATTHEW BLOCH, The New York Times
MATTHEW ERICSON, The New York Times
TOM GIRATIKANON, The New York Times
Submitter:
michael miller
Primary Audience:
College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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Website
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Language:
English
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