Poverty In Suburbs Increasing Rapidly During Economic Downturn

Huffington Post by Hope Yen | Oct. 7, 2010 (Special Report)

The American suburb is no longer a refuge from poverty in cities.

A pair of analyses by the nonprofit Brookings Institution paints a bleak economic picture for the 100 largest metropolitan areas over the past decade and in coming years, and finds that suburbs now are home to one-third of the nation's poor, and rising. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 18, 2010

The poverty report is well documented. The story is weak on identifying the causes of the increasing poverty. There is no mention of corporatist policies of outsourcing jobs, outsourcing profits, tax policy to transfer wealth to the very wealthy, attacks upon labor unions, "free trade," immigration work visas to import cheap indentured workers, and two ill-advised offensive wars of choice.

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