Suburbs now home to a growing plurality of the nation’s poor

We wrote last year about the increasing suburbanization of poverty. Now new data confirms the trend. “From 2000 to 2010, the number of poor people in major-metro suburbs grew 53 percent (5.3 million people), compared to 23 percent in cities (2.4 million people),” write Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube, poverty researchers at the Brookings Institution.

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Suburbs now home to a growing plurality of the nation’s poor

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