Orlando — a city many associate with the "happiest ... That results in a pretty quick jump in poverty for us. All of that in Grand Rapids bleeds out into the suburbs.” Based on a Brookings ...
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.
Reading earned the dubious title of poorest city in the United States. Last year, it appeared that the city might be turning things around, but new poverty statistics for this year show that ...
"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.