Suburban Poverty by the Numbers

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Suburban Poverty by the Numbers

Suburban poverty increased over the last decade

13.7 million: Number of poor people in the suburbs as of 2009.

37 percent: Increase in the number of poor people in the suburbs since 2000.

1.6 million: How many more poor people lived in the suburbs surrounding the nation’s largest metro areas last year than in inner cities.

50 percent: The increase in poverty in Chicago’s surrounding suburbs between 2000 and 2009. Research uncovered similar trends in more than half the nation’s largest metro areas.


http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/11/suburban_poverty_numbers.html



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What's happening ... ?

Desperately poor economy, job loss, increasing unemployment -- foreclosures --

no affordable housing -- no mass transportation.

Organizations trying to meet these growing needs of the newly poor in suburbs having

great problems keeping up with the increasing need.