Suburban Poverty in the US

Face of US poverty: These days, more poor live in suburbs than in cities, By Richard Mertens, September 11, 2013, Christian Science Monitor: “Marcus Thomas, a lanky, unemployed construction worker, says he moved out of Roseland, a poor neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, because it had become too dangerous. ‘I couldn’t walk down the street without someone pulling out a gun on me,’ he says. He didn’t go far. Mr. Thomas came to this suburb just a few miles away, where on a recent afternoon he pushed one of his three children along the sidewalk in a stroller. ‘It’s better than the city,’ he says. ‘There’s not too much violence.’ Suburbs are increasingly becoming the address of America’s poor…”