Concentrated Poverty

Areas of concentrated poverty are defined as census tracts where the overall poverty rate checks in at 30% or more. Nationwide, 12% of all kids — more than 8.5 million children total — live in concentrated poverty.

These neighborhoods generally lack healthy food options, top-performing public schools and quality medical care. High-poverty neighborhoods are also more li... more

Borrowing to Stay Healthy

How Credit Card Debt Is Related to Medical Expenses

With a focus on medical debt and the insurance industry, this is second in a series of Demos publications examining trends in household indebtedness and its impact on economic security.

Car Programs for Low-Income Families

Transporting Families Toward Financial Stability and Success

The need for a car is particularly critical in rural areas. This brief describes a variety of programs that help rural low income famillies get a car to help build family economic success.

Strengthening Rural Families: Avoiding the Money Trap

This 25-minute video highlights financial problems that plague rural working families — payday loans, high-interest car loans, debt, poor credit and more.

Rural Family Economic Success

Earn it, Keep it, Grow It

This overview describes how Casey’s framework for family economic success can work in rural America.

Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for Income Security

This brief shows the racial barriers to minorities having income security and presents policy strategies to conquer embedded racial discrimination.

AdvoCasey: Winter 2005

Double Jeopardy: AdvoCasey Explores the High Cost of Being Poor

This edition of AdvoCasey documents the high cost of being poor in eye-opening detail — including the immense cost of credit paid by many low-income families.
AdvoCasey is a seasonal publication with themed issues that spotlight programs and policies making measurable differences in the lives of kids and families.

Casey Connects: Winter 2005

Applying Casey Lessons to Rural Poverty

This issue of Casey Connects highlights the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s commitment to helping rural families achieve economic success.

Center for Working Families EarnBenefits Evaluation/Learning Paper

This learning paper focuses on Casey's CWF initiative and Seedco’s experiment to test if integrating core services is a better way to help low-income families achieve economic self-sufficiency.

Katrina's Window

Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America

Hurricane Katrina’s assault on New Orleans’ most vulnerable residents and neighborhoods reinvigorated a dialogue on race and class in America. This paper argues that the conversation should focus special attention on alleviating this outdated concentrated urban poverty—the segregation of poor families into extremely distressed neighborhoods.

Building Family Economic Success: Financial Planning and Education

This fact sheet spotlights the damaging financial education and counseling gap pervading disadvantaged communities across America. It shares ways that the Annie E. Casey Foundation is working to fill this void.

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