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Poverty in Massachusetts by Gender
Center for Social Policy Publications
Document Type
Fact Sheet
Publication Date
5-1-2011
Disciplines
Abstract
Massachusetts has lower poverty rates compared to US average. But, like the US, female poverty rates exceed those of males.
Female poverty rates are higher than male poverty rates in Massachusetts' ten largest cities. But, these rates vary widely from 8.2% for males and 9.9% for females in Quincy to 25.6% for males and 29.1% for females in Springfield.
Community Engaged/Serving
No, this is not community-engaged.
Citation Information
Randy Albelda, Ferry Cadet and Dinghong Mei. "Poverty in Massachusetts by Gender" (2011) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/randy_albelda/18/
Who is poor in Massachusetts? How does the Commonwealth fare compared to the US in terms of poverty rates? Which Massachusetts cities have the lowest and highest poverty rates? Researchers at the Center for Social Policy have created eight one-page fact sheets on poverty in the Massachusetts using the recently released 5-year sample of the American Community Survey. Each of the one-page fact sheets provides information of poverty among a particular demographic groups (age, gender, race/ethnicity, education level, nativity, and family status), comparing Massachusetts rates to that in the US, providing the distribution of the whole population and the total poor population, and comparing poverty rate in the 10 largest Massachusetts cities.