10 percent of US counties experiencing persistent poverty: Census data
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 22, 2023
More than 10 percent of U.S. counties are experiencing “persistent poverty,” according to U.S. Census data released this month.
A recent census report found 10.9 percent of the country’s 3,142 counties — 341 of them — “experienced high poverty rates for an extended period.”
More than 80 percent of the counties determined to have persistent poverty were in the South, “clustered in informal subregions such as the Southwest border, the Mississippi Delta, the . . .
