摘要：Poverty is not evenly distributed across the
American landscape. At the county level of aggregation,
poverty is overwhelmingly a rural problem, with
the most remote rural places at the greatest disadvantage.
1 Although research has shown that “place matters”
in poverty outcomes and policy impacts, most
antipoverty policy in the U.S. is essentially place-blind,
not considering how differences among places in economic
or social conditions might affect policy outcomes.
This paper makes the case that state policy
should give renewed attention to locality-based job
creation and community capacity building, while
maintaining and expanding policy innovations that
make work pay, provide work supports and build
worker productivity.
