New Brookings Institution Report reveals:

• By 2008, suburbs were home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the country.
• Midwestern cities and suburbs experienced by far the largest poverty rate increases over the decade.
• In 2008, 91.6 million people -- more than 30 percent of the nation's population -- fell below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
• Western cities and Florida suburbs were among the first to see the effects of the "Great Recession" translate into significant increases in poverty between 2007 and 2008.

Full Story: The Suburbanization of Poverty: Trends in Metropolitan America, 2000 to 2008

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