More poor live in suburbs than urban areas, research shows

[momopi]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 9664.story

"Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis.

As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in suburbs surged 67% between 2000 and 2011 — a much bigger jump than in cities, researchers for the Brookings Institution said in a book published today. Suburbs still have a smaller percentage of their population living in poverty than cities do, but the sheer number of poor people scattered in the suburbs has jumped beyond that of cities."

[kai1275]

Gentrification? I can tell you that anyone living in a McCastle is slowly getting tired of driving 1 hour to come home......