Sentences with phrase «poverty census tracts»
between 1970 and 1990, the number of people in the United States living in high - poverty census tracts (with poverty rates of 40 percent or more) nearly doubled, from 4.1 to 8.0 million.
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The number of high - poverty census tracts in Syracuse more than doubled to 30, from 12, between 2000 and 2013.
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According to the Teaching Tolerance project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, 8 % of African - American consumers lived in a census tract with a supermarket, versus 31 % of white people, as of 2009.
While the City of Kingston, home to some of the Ulster County's poorest census tracts and a recipient of federal entitlement money for anti-poverty programs, has a combined poverty / ALICE rate of 61 percent, the rate in Shandaken and Saugerties is 56 percent.
A charter school desert is defined in the report as an area with three or more contiguous census tracts with moderate or high poverty and no charter elementary schools as of the 2014 - 15 school year.
Charter school scarcity: A new report concludes that Florida has one of the highest number of charter school «deserts,» which are defined as three or more contiguous census tracts with poverty rates above 20 percent and no charter elementary schools.
The pollution and poverty index is a ranking of each census tract as scored by the CalEnviroScreen (CES 2.0)-- it's a combination of poverty, language isolation, and exposure to toxics in both air and water that was generated by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (see oehha.ca.gov/ej/ces2.html for more details).
She has conducted social network analysis to examine collaboration between MIECHV programs and its various partners; constructed GIS maps to examine participant locations relative to the percentage of unemployment, uninsured, and poverty for each program at the census tract level; and has assisted in projects using MIECHV data to answer questions related to maternal depression, characteristics of teen moms in the program, and impact of interpersonal violence on birth outcomes.