Suburban Poverty in the US

Poverty has moved to the suburbs, July 20, 2013, The Economist: “Kim, who is 35 years old and has two children, left high school to look after her mother, a cocaine addict. When Kim’s marriage began to fail and her husband fell ill, she developed addictions of her own—to alcohol and pills, from which she has been free for eight months. She now works at a fast-food restaurant, making, she guesses, around $14,000 a year. Melissa once had an event-planning company. She says it was doing well, but “when the economy went down it took my company with it.” She is now jobless. She and her 16-month-old son live in an apartment provided by the Centre for Family Resources (CFR), a charity. Kim and Melissa live in Cobb County, north-west of Atlanta…”