Suburban Population and Poverty

Population study finds change in the suburbs, By Sam Roberts, May 8, 2010, New York Times: “As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, more black, Asian, Hispanic, foreign-born and poor people live in the suburbs of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas than in their primary cities. ‘Several trends in the 2000s further put to rest the old perceptions of cities as declining, poor, minority places set amid young, white, wealthy suburbs,’ a report released Sunday by the Brookings Institution concluded. That demographic inversion was accompanied by another first since the 2000 census: In the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas, black, Hispanic and Asian residents constitute a majority of residents younger than 18 – presaging a benchmark that the nation as a whole is projected to reach in just over a decade…”