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More people live in poverty in Baltimore's suburbs than in the city itself, part of a nationwide shift that is challenging the largely urban assistance network built up over decades. Suburban poverty in the Baltimore area grew 58 percent between 2000 and...

More than half of all poor people in the Akron metropolitan area now live in the suburbs, mirroring a trend that has seen poverty shift out of major cities over the last decade, the Brookings Institution says in a new book released today. The think tank...

Say poverty in the Philadelphia area, and it conjures images of North Philadelphia or Kensington, not the suburbs. But the suburbs on both sides of the Delaware River are becoming steadily poorer, part of a national trend that confounds long-held...

The suburb as an enclave of middle-class nuclear families, tidy lawns and two-car garages may have always been a myth. A new book puts a stake in that stereotype, reporting that suburban poverty is growing at more than twice the rate of urban centers...

Every morning during breakfast before the school day starts, my 6-year-old daughter and I pore over the comics section of this newspaper. I read the funnies to her, usually sticking to the kid-friendly "Red and Rover," "Garfield," "Family Circus" and...

The middle-class American dream, which resided for more than half a century in leafy suburban enclaves such as Mountain View, Lafayette and Antioch -- homogeneous bulwarks built by GI loans and fortified by white flight -- has given way to an alarming...

The idea of suburban America conjures up images of Ward and June Cleaver, of safe streets and good schools, prosperity and homogeny. But new findings released Monday by the Brookings Institution are flipping such conventional thinking about American...

Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in...

The first time the ministry set up a free summer-lunch program for children in Blendon Township, a few residents dropped by the park, concerned. "Why here?" one man asked. "Are you saying this area is poor?" He was worried about appearances, worried...

Across the country, the poverty rate is surging in the suburbs, where the number of poor people is growing much faster than in central cities -- a largely unrecognized reversal that calls for a retooling of federal anti-poverty, economic development and...

Hampton Roads experienced a 25 percent jump in the number of poor people living in its suburbs in the past decade, a report released today said. But that was among the smallest increases among metropolitan areas across the country. The report, from...

Inver Hills Community College nestles into leafy valleys near some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in suburban Dakota County. But every Wednesday at noon, students like Christine Monroe and Muhammad Rashad quietly slip into the back of a truck to pick...