Thought this might be of interest to list members.

Donna Brian 

 

 SUBURBAN POVERTY NOW OUTNUMBERS URBAN POVERTY An analysis of poverty in
cities and suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas, based
on data from the 2005 American Community Survey and Census 2000,
indicates that in 1999 large cities and their suburbs had nearly equal
numbers of poor individuals, but by 2005 the suburban poor outnumbered
their city counterparts by at least 1 million. Poverty rates rose
significantly in Midwestern and Southern metropolitan areas, but
remained steady in the West and Northeast. In the Midwest, where job
losses were concentrated in the first half of the decade, poverty rates
rose in 18 of 20 metropolitan areas. In the West, by contrast, only
seven of 23 metro areas experienced poverty rate increases, and poverty
actually fell in five. Nearly half of large cities nationwide saw a
significant rise in their poverty rates, versus about one-third of their
suburbs. In cities and suburbs where overall poverty rates rose from
1999 to 2005, child poverty rates rose faster. At the local le vel, the
enduring social and fiscal challenges for cities that stem from high
poverty are increasingly shared by their suburbs, writes researchers
Alan Berube and Elizabeth Kneebone in a Brookings Institution report.
Public and private efforts that give growing suburban poor populations
access to economically integrated neighborhoods and in-work supports
could enhance economic security and mobility for a significant number of
Americans.

http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20061205_citysuburban.htm
<http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20061205_citysuburban.htm> 

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