Poverty grows in suburbs 
Study: Midwest, South see highest rise in poverty rate
By Glenn Roberts Jr., Tuesday, December 12, 2006.Poverty is a growing problem in the United States, and six of 10 cities with the largest poverty-rate increases from 1999-2005 were in the Midwest, according to a report by The Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program.
The 2005 poverty rate in large cities was 18.8 percent, compared with a rate of 9.4 percent for suburbs, and the overall percentage of people in poverty increased in both cities and suburbs from 1999-2005.
"These trends are in large part the function of the 2001-02 recession and slow wage growth thereafter for lower-skilled workers," according to th
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