The spirals of poverty and mass incarceration upend urban communities — MSNBC’s Geography of Poverty series.

Geography of Poverty, Chapter 4: As industry closes in, Native Americans fight for dignity and natural resources

Geography of Poverty, Chapter 3: Flint, Michigan has never recovered from the loss of General Motors and now grapples with widespread poverty and crime.

Geography of Poverty, chapter 2: Clusters of poverty and sickness shadow America’s industrial South

The Geography of Poverty, chapter 1: All across the Southwest, pockets of poverty have been exacerbated by a tangle of bad economic and immigration policy

In photos and stories from coast to coast, msnbc chronicles the struggles of Americans in more than 70 towns where at least 20 percent of residents live in