General
An Integrated Approach to Fighting Blight and Poverty in Buffalo’s Low-Income Neighborhoods
Who Is Living in Poverty and Why?
Buffalo Research
City of Buffalo, Poverty Map (Based on 2000 Census Data)
Magavern, Sam. Poverty-Level Work in Western New York
Mix, Wende. Buffalo Poverty Related Information
Mix, Wende. The Geography of Urban Poverty (2008)
Pendall, Rolf. Losing Ground: Income and Poverty in Upstate New York, 1980-2000. Brookings Institution (2004).
Pijuan, Irene. Poverty in the City of Buffalo
Regional Institute, Poverty: a State of Extremes (2006)
Selected National Research
Fellowes, Matt. From Poverty, Opportunity: Putting the Market to Work for Lower Income Families. Brookings Institution (2006).
Gans, Herbert, 1995. The War Against The Poor: The Underclass And Antipoverty Policy. New York: Basic Books.
Iceland, John, 2006. Poverty in America: A Handbook (Second Edition). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Pimpare, Steven, 2008. A People’s History of Poverty in the United States. New York: The New Press.
Talukdar, Debabrata. Cost of Being Poor: Retail Price and Consumer Price Search Differences Across Inner City and Suburban Neighborhoods Journal of Consumer Research (October 2008).
Venakatesh, Sudhir Alladi, 2006. Off the Books: the Underground Economy of the Urban Poor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Wilson, William Julius, 2009. More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton.
Wilson, William Julius, 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wilson, William Julius, 1996. When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Vintage Books.
Young, Alford A., Jr., 2004. The Minds of Marginalized Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Resources
Western New York
–City of Buffalo Living Wage Commission