An interesting set of comparative maps (if you scroll down to the bottom for the interactive one) showing how poverty demographics have changed in US cities between 1980 and 2000.
It's interesting how it's spread (as suburbs have spread), integrated (in some cases), and shifted neighborhoods. It does seem to have increased overall, though.
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Title says it all … based on Census data. There is an interactive map at the bottom you can zoom and sweep with.
Poverty Maps From 1980 Look Astonishingly Different Compared to 2010
In every metropolitan area in the U.S.
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Very cool.
It is interesting that in a couple of ways.
One being that Poverty has grown so much since 1980, and in some places the deveristy of the poverty has changed.
Boulder was interesting solely because it was very easy to see where the students live in and around the campus, and that going from 1980 to 2010 it goes from an almost universal blue to yellows, blues, greens and a few red dots.