Over l 1 thou k Americans immediately alive inward economically distressed communities. The Economic Innovation Group (EIG) has evaluated the economical prosperity of neighborhoods across the U.S. of America as well as has constitute that to a greater extent than or less 1 inward vi Americans alive inward areas of economical distress.
You tin mail away explore the EIG's information for yourself on the Distressed Communities Index interactive map. The map allows you lot to explore the information at nothing code level. If you lot click on a nothing code surface area on the map you lot tin mail away sentiment the area's 'Distress Score' as well as 'Distress Rank'. You tin mail away besides sentiment a publish of other economical surgical procedure indicators, such every bit the poverty charge per unit of measurement as well as the publish of adults inward employment.
Zip code areas on the map are colored to betoken their Distress Score. The map shows that at that topographic point is a large concentration of distressed communities inward Southern states as well as Rust Belt cities. According to the EIG "Texas contains the largest publish of people inward distressed nothing codes as well as Mississippi has the largest portion of its population inward distress".
