Recession Drives Up Concentrated Poverty in America's Suburbs

ByEconMatters

Brookings just publisheda new studyanalyzing data on neighborhood poverty from the 2005–09 American Community Surveys and Census 2000, and here are some of the very depressing findings:

Over a ten-year span, the number of Americans in poverty has grown by 12.3 million reaching a historic high of 46.2 million. By the end of 2010, over 15% of the nation’s population lived below the federal poverty line—$22,314 for a family of four in 2010.
At least 2.2 million more

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