Cleveland reign as nation's poorest city over(? 8% change in 1 year ?)

[Algorem]

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1125414840115970.xml&storylist=cleveland

8/30/2005, 11:05 a.m. ET
The Associated Press

CLEVELAND (AP) — The city's reign as the nation's poorest big city came to an end Tuesday when U.S. Census researchers said Cleveland fell from No. 1 to No. 12 on the list of the country's most impoverished metropolises...

The report released Tuesday said the percentage of Cleveland's 478,000 people living in poverty fell from 31.3 percent in last year's report to 23.2 percent. The reasons for the sharp decline were not immediately revealed.(?)

For a year, Cleveland had been coping with the tag as the nation's most impoverished city among cities with populations of 250,000 or more. Politicians and community leaders have spent the last 12 months trying to find solutions to a problem that has attracted national attention and trying to repair an already fragile image.

Detroit topped El Paso, Texas; Miami; Newark, N.J.; Atlanta and Long Beach, Calif.



Census Bureau American Community Survey: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/

[etherealtruth]

1. Detroit's elevation to poorest ...

... is, unfortunately, not a surprise.

[wli]

4. all those auto mfg layoffs indeed n/t

[cmd]

2. Interesting leap

The mayor said last week that she didn't expect a change in status. I would love to see the reason behind this.

[demnan]

3. Perhaps

Cleveland didn't get worse but other cities did.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. Interesting thought...

[maxsolomon]

5. what white flight hath wrought

the city cores have been abandoned by the midle & upper classes for the homogenous embrace of the suburbs & the exurbs.

[1932]

7. Lots of Republican companies moved jobs from blue states to OH for '04

election.

Lots of money got pumped into Cleveland.

[classics]

8. "The reasons for the sharp decline were not immediately revealed."

Cooking the books of course.

As someone who lives in Cleveland I can assure you that 10% of the population didnt get rich last year.

In fact things here are getting worse every day.