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"
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