Scott W. Allard Place and Poverty in the United States

  • About
    • About Scott W. Allard
    • Academic CV
    • Brookings Metro Policy Program Expert Page
    • UW Faculty Webpage
  • Books
    • Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty
      • Featured in National Center for Children in Poverty’s (NCCP) November 2017 Online Book Club
      • Click here to Order
      • Introduction
      • Places in Need – Online Technical Appendix
      • Media Coverage of Places in Need
      • Book Launch Event – July 20th
    • Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State
  • Papers
    • Articles
    • Book Chapters & Monographs
    • Briefs and Reports
    • Working Papers
  • Projects & Affiliations
    • The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
    • Multi-City Survey of Social Service Providers (MSSSP)
    • Rural Survey of Social Service Providers (RSSSP)
    • The Minimum Wage Study
    • Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Consortium (FSSRC)
  • Professional Experience
  • Media
    • Op-Eds and Blog Posts
    • Select Media Coverage
About
    About Scott W. Allard
    Academic CV
    Brookings Metro Policy Program Expert Page
    UW Faculty Webpage
Books
    Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty
    Featured in National Center for Children in Poverty's (NCCP) November 2017 Online Book Club
    Click here to Order
    Introduction
    Places in Need - Online Technical Appendix
    Media Coverage of Places in Need
    Book Launch Event - July 20th
    Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State
Papers
    Articles
    Book Chapters & Monographs
    Briefs and Reports
    Working Papers
Projects & Affiliations
    The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
    Multi-City Survey of Social Service Providers (MSSSP)
    Rural Survey of Social Service Providers (RSSSP)
    The Minimum Wage Study
    Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Consortium (FSSRC)
Professional Experience
Media
    Op-Eds and Blog Posts
    Select Media Coverage

Scott W. Allard Place and Poverty in the United States

  • About
    • About Scott W. Allard
    • Academic CV
    • Brookings Metro Policy Program Expert Page
    • UW Faculty Webpage
  • Books
    • Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty
      • Featured in National Center for Children in Poverty’s (NCCP) November 2017 Online Book Club
      • Click here to Order
      • Introduction
      • Places in Need – Online Technical Appendix
      • Media Coverage of Places in Need
      • Book Launch Event – July 20th
    • Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State
  • Papers
    • Articles
    • Book Chapters & Monographs
    • Briefs and Reports
    • Working Papers
  • Projects & Affiliations
    • The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
    • Multi-City Survey of Social Service Providers (MSSSP)
    • Rural Survey of Social Service Providers (RSSSP)
    • The Minimum Wage Study
    • Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Consortium (FSSRC)
  • Professional Experience
  • Media
    • Op-Eds and Blog Posts
    • Select Media Coverage
Commentary

Falling Poverty, Maintaining Support

December 23, 2016by Scott W. AllardNo Comments

The national poverty report produced by the Census Bureau in September showed the poverty rate to have fallen from 14.8% to 13.5% between 2014 and 2015. This was much welcomed news after more than a decade of very little improved economic opportunity for those at the lower end of the wage and income distribution.

While most attention at the time was paid to the drop in the poverty rate, the report’s appendices indicate the number of poor persons in the U.S. fell by more than 3.5 million from 2014 to 2015. Recent progress on poverty should bolster support for the safety net and encourage us to do more.

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Commentary

Pushed Out and Isolated

November 1, 2016by Scott W. AllardNo Comments

Safia Samee Ali’s recent piece for NBC News captures the challenges confronting low-income residents of cities today. Factors, such as gentrification and rising rents, push families out of their homes and neighborhoods in cities. At the same time many of the suburban destinations awaiting  families leaving the city do not necessarily foster access to greater opportunity.

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Research

Suburban Poverty, Segregation, and the Safety Net

October 15, 2016by Scott W. AllardNo Comments

Recently, the Furman Center at NYU posted a scholarly give-and-take exchange around issues of suburban poverty, segregation, and the safety net as part of its series The Dream Revisited. Following insight and commentary on race and suburbanization by Alan Berube, Georgette Phillips, and Thomas B. Harvey, my piece in this series turned to how local suburban safety nets are composed.

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Research

New Monograph on Suburban Poverty

September 7, 2016by Scott W. AllardNo Comments

Recently, I published a short monograph on suburban poverty with a UW doctoral student, Sarah Charnes Paisner. Our monograph examines the suburbanization of poverty in metropolitan areas with a particular focus on the experience of the United States. Discussion highlights key trends and likely causes of suburban poverty and provides an overview of various attempts to classify heterogeneity across suburbs.

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Research

IRP Podcast featuring Scott W. Allard

August 30, 2016by Scott W. AllardNo Comments

In this Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin podcast, I discuss my forthcoming book, Places in Need.

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Research

Early Insight into Seattle Minimum Wage – Employers and Workers

April 30, 2016by Scott W. AllardNo Comments

As part of a larger set of projects exploring local minimum wage laws, my Minimum Wage Study team at the University of Washington put out a report examining employer and worker perspectives at baseline. There are several interesting findings, even as we just are learning of the broader impact and consequences.

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Research

How a Rising Minimum Wage May Impact the Nonprofit Sector

January 6, 2016by Scott W. AllardNo Comments

As the income inequality discussion continues to simmer across the country, municipal minimum wage ordinances have become hot topics of conversation in many cities. In January 2016, Seattle will implement its second step-up in the local minimum wage in 9 months, reaching $13 for many employers in the city and edging closer to a $15 an hour minimum that will apply to most firms by 2019. San Francisco will reach a $15 an hour minimum by July 2018. Yet cities as diverse as Birmingham, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Louisville have enacted or proposed similar minimum wage laws. It is too early to discern true impact of these local wage ordinances, but speculation abounds regarding whether or how the higher wage will affect firms and the earnings of low-wage workers.

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Commentary

New Human Need Index Fills a Data Void to Help Those in Need

November 2, 2015by Scott W. AllardNo Comments
Human Needs Index Map of the United States

My 2009 book, “Out of Reach,” examined why it can be hard for poor families to get help from the safety net. One critical barrier is the lack of information about local program resources and nonprofit social service organizations. Good information is key to finding help, but it’s also important if we are to target resources effectively and assess if program investments were successful.

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Research

IRP Webinar with Scott W. Allard and Alexandra K. Murphy

May 20, 2015by Scott W. AllardNo Comments

In this Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin webinar, Alex Murphy from the University of Michigan and I discuss the changing geography of poverty in the US.

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