Incomes have been steadily rising for years in the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the typical American ...

To get an idea of which U.S. cities have the fastest-growing rates of concentrated poverty, we ranked metro areas based on the change in poor population in tracts with poverty rates 20% or higher.

The recent foreclosure spike is particularly acute in several cities, almost all of which are poor. (These American cities have the most foreclosures.) Real estate research firm ATTOM recently ...

"It is alarming how many US cities, including those thought of as affluent and growing, are now home to more people living in situations of extreme poverty, namely without access to running water.

Nearly 40 percent of poor households live in majority poor areas ... but it's still 19 points higher than the average for Western cities. [Red is low income. Blue is high income.] ...