Trending Globally: Politics and Policy

The Changing Geography of Poverty


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When we look at poverty today, we see that it is no longer the blight of urban areas alone. It is thriving, as it were, in many suburbs. In today’s podcast, former Brown University Professor Scott Allard and Margaret Weir, Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, shine a light not only on the suburbanization of poverty, but on the question of how to address the problem when suburbs themselves are so vastly different from one another.
You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://watson.brown.edu/files/watson/imce/news/podcast/trending-globally/transcripts/E52_%20Scott%20Allard%2C%20Margaret%20Weir%2C%20Susan%20Moffit_mixdown.pdf]
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