Exam 10: Abandoned Spaces, Forgotten Places: Poverty and Place

In "comeback cities" such as Cleveland and Detroit, overall employment has increased at the same time there has been a marked decrease in

Poverty in South Dakota is most prevalent on Native American reservations.

The most segregated metropolitan area in the United States is greater metropolitan

Wilson contends American cities have moved from

Large cities often have income gaps between the top and bottom quintiles that are greater than the national average.

The continent with the lowest incomes and highest rates of poverty is

What locations in the United States have experienced severe urban and rural poverty? What have been the major causes of this concentration of poverty?

To cope with deindustrialization, cities such as Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland sought to

List 3 of the 10 most segregated cities in the United States.

One common strategy to increase employment and community income in depressed areas, seen recently in Flint, Cleveland, Detroit, and Gary, is to build

The poorest counties in the United States are in Texas, Mississippi, and South Dakota.

"Brain gain" cities that attracted highly educated people often are the sites of

What regions contain the counties with the highest concentrations of rural poverty?

When heavy industry left, Midwest and Northeast cities experienced

Rust Belt cities are those who have experienced a loss of heavy industry.

Rural areas have much lower percentages in poverty than urban places.

The problems of the American inner city ghetto are many, but Wilson believes that at the root cause of many of them is

The region of the country that has been consistently losing population over the last several decades, due partly to a changing agricultural economy, is

List three of the "brain gain" cities showing strong growth in the United States.

What are the FIRE enterprises that dominate metropolitan downtowns?