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“People think poverty as a
measure of income, but as a lived experience for what it means tobe poor, it tends to involve a lot of other things as well. We havetaken some other dimensions such as low education, lack of healthinsurance, being in an unemployed household, and being in an areawith concentrated poverty, where 1 in 5 of your neighbors in belowthe poverty line. One of the interesting questions becomes, how dothose different dimensions of disadvantage go together? Is it thesame people experiencing all of those different kinds ofdisadvantage, or different people in different places experiencingdifferent things?”—“Policies need to be better
integrated to work. To alleviate poverty, rarely is just increasingincome going to be enough if you’re facing things like deep healthdisparities and concentrations of poverty that carry so many otherbarriers that make it much harder for people to move out ofpoverty. This sort of a lens just gives you that multidimensionallook beyond income.”—In this episode of
“Intersections,” Brookings experts Elizabeth Kneebone, fellow inMetropolitan Policy Program, and Richard Reeves, senior fellow inEconomic Studies, discuss their recent research on the multiplebarriers and challenges that complicate the path out of poverty,and how different dimensions of poverty affect different peopleacross the country.Show
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