Suburban Poverty

Cities are becoming more affluent while poverty is rising in inner suburbs — and that has implications for schools, By Emma Brown and T. Rees Shapiro, February 26, 2015, Washington Post: “City centers around the country are becoming younger, more affluent and more educated, while inner suburbs are seeing poverty rates rise, according to a new study from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.  The new study is based on an analysis of demographic changes in 66 cities between 1990 and 2012. It comes just months after a surge of headlines about suburban poverty following a Brookings Institution study that found that more Americans are now living in poverty in the suburbs than in rural or urban areas…”