Poverty Rate – Toledo, OH

Hard times tighten vise on the poor; U.S. ranks Toledo as nation’s 8th-most impoverished, By Tom Henry, February 14, 2010, Toledo Blade: “One in four. What does it mean? Every dollar has four quarters. So does every football game. Every gallon of milk and every gallon of gasoline has four quarts. But try to explain what it means to live in a city such as Toledo, where one of every four people now lives below the poverty line. There is no tidy way to package and deliver the answer. The latest U.S. Census Bureau poverty statistics rank Toledo the nation’s eighth most impoverished city, with 24.7 percent of its residents living below the poverty line. That’s nearly twice the national poverty rate of 13.2 percent. Many believe the situation is worse now locally and nationally, given that those Census figures were based on late 2008 data. America’s economic crisis worsened during the first half of 2009…”