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Persistent Poverty: Identifying Areas With Long-Term High Poverty

About 10.9% of the nation?s 3,142 counties experienced high poverty rates for an extended period, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report on persistent poverty.

In this report, an area is considered in persistent poverty if it had a poverty rate of 20.0% or higher during the three decades period from 1989 to 2015-2019.

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Persistent and chronic poverty are different; the former focuses on places with a long history of high poverty while chronic poverty is used to identify people consistently in poverty.

Research suggests people living in high poverty areas experience significant barriers to well-being whether or not they?re poor themselves. The longer poverty exists in an area, the more likely the community lacks adequate infrastructure and support services.

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