NEWSMAX: …The number of poor people living in suburbs rose 64 percent between 2000 and 2011, reaching 16.4 million, it showed. The number of poor people living in urban areas increased 29 percent to 13.4 million….
Many U.S. anti-poverty programs are based on the 1960s “War on Poverty,” which focused on poor urban neighborhoods. The federal government spends $82 billion a year on more than 80 programs, with most centered on improving the physical and economic environment in poor urban areas, the study said.
“None of these types of programs was built with suburbs in mind,” the study found. “Poverty in suburbs tends to spread over larger areas that are a poor fit for neighborhood improvement programs, which often fail to encourage collaboration among fragmented suburban jurisdictions.” … (more)
