One hundred fifty low-income census tracts across Louisiana have been nominated for federal certification as Opportunity Zones offering federal tax incentives to attract private investment. Don ...

campaign, a "food desert" is defined as a low-income census tract with limited-access to healthy food. In urban areas, that means it's more than 1 mile away from a large grocery store or ...

The state is accepting public input online through March 16 for lower-income communities that can be designated by the federal government as tax-advantaged areas for new long-term private investment.

WASHINGTON, March 13 (UPI) -- A new Food Access Research Atlas by the U.S. government uses census tracts to show supermarket access in low-income areas, officials say. Officials at the U.S ...

Some low-income census tracts in Denver are right next to high-income areas. The wealthiest county in the metro area is Douglas, which has a median household income of $101,000.

A report by the Bay Area Equity Atlas says 11 of the region's census tracts are segregated low-income Asian American/Pacific Islander neighborhoods. The report, posted online July 27, analyzes all ...

The GOP tax law, enacted in late 2017, created the “opportunity zones” program, which provides capital gains tax breaks to those who make investments in certain low-income census tracts.

The U.S. Treasury Department has certified low-income census tracts as federal “Opportunity Zones” in the cites of Post Falls and Moscow, Idaho, and Benewah, Bonner, Boundary and Shoshone ...

Residents of the area nestled south of Interstate 70 on Columbus' West Side have an average life expectancy of 60 years.