Poverty is creeping closer to people living in the American South, according to a new report from the U.S. Census.
This map from a new U.S. Census report clearly shows high poverty areas that stretch along the Southern Crescent from Virgina through Georgia to the Delta area along the Mississippi River.
Just under one in three people across the South — 30.8 percent — live in a neighborhood or community in which at least 20 percent of people live in poverty. Just 10 years ago across the region, one in five people — 21.8 percent of Southerners — lived in these “poverty areas.” Continue reading “Crescent prominent in new map of poverty areas”