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Concentrated poverty in the neighborhoods of the nation’s largest urban cores has exploded since the 1970s. The number of high poverty neighborhoods has tripled and the number of poor people in those neighborhoods has doubled.
Longer arrows represent greater change in poverty and thicker arrows represent denser population. Newly poor tracts are ones that had a poverty rate of 30% or more in 2010 that did not in 1970.
