KEY BATTLEGROUNDS for the War On Poverty Inner cities account for a disproportionate amount of America’s poverty and unemployment
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OUT OF 10 PEOPLE LIVE IN POVERTY IN THE INNER CITY
FLINT Inner City Unemployment Rate
Inner cities make up 21% of the U.S. population living in poverty. That’s 8 MILLION people.
21%
25%
DEARBORN Inner City Poverty Rate
43%
VS 13%
OUT OF 10 IN THE SUBURBS
Inner City Poverty Rate
15%
10%
OF THE U.S. POPULATION. THAT’S 30 MILLION PEOPLE.
9%
23%
U.S. Poverty Rate
32%
INNER CITIES MAKE UP
CAMDEN Inner City Unemployment Rate
DETROIT Inner City Unemployment Rate
Inner cities make up 15% of the U.S. unemployed. That’s 2 MILLION people.
PEORIA Inner City Poverty Rate
U.S. Unemployment Rate
14%
28%
41%
Inner City Unemployment Rate
ALBANY Inner City Poverty Rate
42%
WHAT IS AN INNER CITY? ICIC defines inner cities as distressed urban areas that meet the following criteria: POVERTY RATE*
20% OR HIGHER
or
POVERTY RATE* AT LEAST
1.5x > MSA**
&
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE*
AT LEAST
1.5x > MSA**
&/or
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME* AT LEAST
50% < MSA**
* Excludes currently-enrolled undergraduate and graduate students ** MSA = metropolitan statistical area; http://quickfacts.Census.Gov/qfd/meta/long_metro.Htm Inner City In Focus 2014.1; ICIC, January 2014. Sources: ICIC’s State of the Inner City Economies (SICE) database; American Community Survey 2007-11; ICIC Analysis.
There are 328 inner cities in U.S. cities with over 75,000 people.
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