By Ranada Robinson, Project Associate. One of the long-term effects of successful economic development is decreased poverty rates. We know that poverty is the state of having insufficient means to attain necessities such as housing, nutrition, transportation, clothing, etc. Market Street uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau to compute poverty rates for our client communities. Poverty rates help us to ascertain how well a community is doing socioeconomically. They also help to inform new...