Thursday, October 7, 2010

Increasingly, poverty is suburban

The suburbs are now home to one-third of the nation's poor, according to the Brookings Institution, which predicts that the percentage will increase in coming years. Brookings also finds that the social-service networks in the suburbs are stretched too thin to adequately clothe and feed their newly poor.

Associated Press article, via Yahoo!

Brookings website: "Strained Suburbs: The Social Service Challenges of Rising Suburban Poverty"