Changing Patterns of Poverty and Spatial Inequality in Appalachia
While the U.S. poverty rate broadly declined in the 1990s, Appalachia had a mixture of economic winners and losers during the decade. This report provides a first look at Appalachian poverty based on new data from the 2000 Census.
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