Deck 10: Abandoned Spaces, Forgotten Places: Poverty and Place

Question 1

The Black Belt in the United States is home to

A) East Asian refugees
B) abandoned coal mines and jobless miners
C) a string of inner-city East Coast slums
D) rural, poor, Southern African Americans

Answer 1

D

Question 2

One reason that the governments of many poor countries do not spend more on health and education is that they spend 5 to 15% of their GNP on

A) railroad systems
B) airports
C) refugees
D) interest on debt

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In "comeback cities" such as Cleveland and Detroit, overall employment has increased at the same time there has been a marked decrease in

A) professional employment
B) service-sector employment
C) manufacturing employment
D) commercial development

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Rust Belt cities are those who have experienced a loss of heavy industry.

Question 5

The continent with the lowest incomes and highest rates of poverty is

A) Africa
B) South America
C) Asia
D) North America and Europe

Question 6

The counties in the United States with the highest poverty rates are home to

A) inner-city ghettoes
B) poor refugees from Asia and Europe
C) rural white, Native, Hispanic, and African Americans
D) urban workers displaced by deindustrialization

Question 7

Poverty is becoming much more common in

A) older, inner-ring suburbs
B) new "brain gain" cities
C) expanding "edge cities"
D) technology corridors

Question 8

Unlike central cities, suburbs, even older ones, typically have little poverty.

Question 9

Richard Florida believes that "brain gain" cities thrive by attracting young and diverse creative workers.

Question 10

One common strategy to increase employment and community income in depressed areas, seen recently in Flint, Cleveland, Detroit, and Gary, is to build

A) stadiums, casinos and recreational attractions
B) large central-city industrial parks
C) a network of college and technical educational programs
D) parks and public-works projects that employ the unemployed

Question 11

The most segregated metropolitan area in the United States is greater metropolitan

A) Atlanta
B) Milwaukee
C) Las Vegas
D) Memphis

Question 12

Two-thirds of the world's poor live in

A) Africa
B) South America
C) Asia
D) North America and Europe

Question 13

To cope with deindustrialization, cities such as Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland sought to

A) lure investors from Switzerland and Japan
B) make a citywide effort to retool older workers
C) develop new industrial parks in suburban areas
D) attract new hotels and retailers along with civic attractions

Question 14

"Brain gain" cities that attracted highly educated people often are the sites of

A) big casinos and riverboats
B) major universities and government offices
C) large manufacturing firms
D) export processing zones

Question 15

The problems of the American inner city ghetto are many, but Wilson believes that at the root cause of many of them is

A) racial discrimination
B) drugs
C) joblessness
D) crime

Question 16

When heavy industry left, Midwest and Northeast cities experienced

A) urban riots
B) the Rust Belt phenomenon
C) large-scale sit-down strikes
D) large-scale foreign investment

Question 17

The most segregated city in the United States is Mobile, Alabama.

Question 18

Wilson contends American cities have moved from

A) institutional to jobless ghettos
B) class-based to race-based ghettos
C) African American to immigrant ghettos
D) racial ghettos to full integration

Question 19

The region of the country that has been consistently losing population over the last several decades, due partly to a changing agricultural economy, is

A) the Northeast
B) the Southeast
C) the Great Plains
D) the Southwest

Question 20

Large cities often have income gaps between the top and bottom quintiles that are greater than the national average.

Question 21

Poverty in South Dakota is most prevalent on Native American reservations.

Question 22

What regions contain the counties with the highest concentrations of rural poverty?

Question 23

The world's poorest people are rural.

Question 24

What are the FIRE enterprises that dominate metropolitan downtowns?

Question 25

The poorest counties in the United States are in Texas, Mississippi, and South Dakota.

Question 26

Rural areas have much lower percentages in poverty than urban places.

Question 27

How have market forces contributed to greater growth and greater poverty at the same time?

Question 28

List three of the "brain gain" cities showing strong growth in the United States.

Question 29

List 3 of the 10 most segregated cities in the United States.

Question 30

The "Black Belt" refers to a region with many rural African Americans.

Question 31

How does rural poverty differ from urban poverty?

Question 32

What locations in the United States have experienced severe urban and rural poverty? What have been the major causes of this concentration of poverty?