The Suburbanization of Poverty

The Brookings Institution authored this report on new statistics that show suburban areas have the fastest growing poor population in the country. Specifically, between 2000 and 2008, suburbs’ poor populations grew by 25 percent, which equates to five times faster than primary urban areas. In 2008, suburbs were home to 1.5 million more poor than their primary cities and housed almost one-third of the nation’s poor overall.