Poverty Is Growing Fastest In The Suburbs

"Protests...have drawn international attention to the St. Louis suburb’s growing underclass. Such challenges aren’t unique to Ferguson, according to a Brookings Institution report July 31 that found the poor population growing twice as fast in U.S. suburbs as in city centers. From Miami to Denver, resurgent downtowns have blossomed even as their recession-weary outskirts struggle with soaring poverty in what amounts to a paradigm shift....The number of poor people living in impoverished U.S. suburbs has more than doubled since 2000, comparing to a 50 percent rise in cities. More than half of the 46 million Americans in poverty now live in suburbs, Kneebone said." Toluse Olorunnipa and Elizabeth Campbell in Bloomberg.