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  1. Our sinking suburbs

    Across the nation, suburbs now surpass cities and rural areas in the number of people living in poverty If you want to know what homelessness looks like in the 21st century, you have to look beyond the familiar hoods and urban alleys. You have to head out ...

    5 Jul 2013 - Joanne Zuhl

  2. We need to update our perceptions about poverty

    Time was that moving out of the city and into the suburbs was a mark of success, a move solidifying a family’s foothold in the middle class and a future of upward mobility. In the 1960s and 70s, the federal government encouraged suburban living, investing ...

    25 Jun 2013 - SR editorial board

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