Concentrated Poverty – Oregon

Oregon’s huge increase in people living in high-poverty areas one of nation’s most extreme, study finds, By Betsy Hammond, July 16, 2014, The Oregonian: “Oregon experienced one of the nation’s most severe increases in people living in areas of concentrated poverty during the first decade of this century, according to a new Census Bureau study of living situations in 2000 and 2010. It was one of just four states — all in the South except Oregon — where the share of people living in census tracts with a high share of impoverished residents shot up more than 15 percentage points over that period…”