Brookings Institution

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...

Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...

When Hartford's suburbs began to flourish in the years after World War II, it was often courtesy of businesses that had been in Hartford. That is typical of most metropolitan regions across the country. For decades, companies have been moving from city to...

WASHINGTON — When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from his impoverished country last week, he complained that Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region. It...

Not too long ago, Carroll County faced a problem: Rapid growth had brought crowded classrooms to the northeastern part of the county, and planners expected many more homes to be built in the area. "At one point, they were 400 kids over capacity at North...

Almost exactly 20 years ago, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead wrote a controversial essay for The Atlantic titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." In case you forgot (or never knew), let me fill you in on what Quayle was right about. There once was a popular sitcom...

It’s been a rough week for Russian oligarchs, with the apparent suicide of exiled Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky as well as a Eurozone rescue of Cyprus expected to come largely at the expense of Russian high rollers who stashed their wealth in...