This interactive map from the New York Times uses Census data to show where the poor live. You can the number of people living in poverty or the percentage living in poverty. You can also hover your mouse over each county to see the numbers for that county. When you zoom in, you can also get the data for smaller geographies like Census tracts. If you click on several of the big cities on the bottom ribbon, the map will zoom right in to that area.
Click to View Interactive Poverty Map
This map can be a useful starting point for talking about how and why poverty is distributed the way it is. You can use local counties and then ask students to speculate on why there are so many discrepancies between them. I also think it can be useful to show this map alongside a map of racial/ethnic dispersion to help students see the intersection between race and social class
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