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• USA: Neighborhoods Confer Health, but Not Wealth Low-Income Families Who Move to Safer Areas Become Happier, Not Better Off
  21 September 2012, by siawi3

  While moving to safer neighborhoods made a big difference in peoples’ lives, however, moving to less racially segregated ones didn’t. That is worrisome because even as the U.S. has become less racially segregated in recent decades, it has become economically segregated, with poor people increasingly concentrated in certain neighborhoods. From a quality-of-life standpoint, the researchers found, the increase in poverty concentration over the past 40 years has almost canceled out the gains in income among poorer Americans.