![]() In 2015, 16 million poor people lived in the suburbs, outnumbering the poor population in cities by more than 3 million, small metro areas by more than 6 million, and rural areas by more than 8 million. For the first time, suburbs became home to more poor residents than cities. ![]() However, the rapid pace of growth in the suburban poor population during the 2000s fueled a significant “tipping point” in the geography of the nation’s poor. Even with these increases, poverty rates in urban and rural areas remained higher on average than elsewhere: The 2015 poverty rate was 19.6 percent in large cities, 17.2 percent in rural areas, 16 percent in small metro areas, and 11.2 percent in the suburbs. These increases pushed the poverty rate up by roughly 3 percentage points in suburbs and small metro areas between 20, compared to a 2 percentage-point uptick in both cities and rural counties. All together, suburbs accounted for nearly half (48 percent) of the total national increase in the poor population over that time period. Suburbs in the country’s largest metro areas saw the number of residents living below the poverty line grow by 57 percent between 20. 1 But the rapid rise of poverty in the 2000s touched a broad swath of communities across the country, moving well beyond its historic homes.īetween 20, the poor population in smaller metropolitan areas grew at double the pace of the urban and rural poor populations, outstripped only by poverty’s growth in the nation’s suburbs. As poverty grew in the 2000s, it continued to climb in those places: Both large cities and rural counties experienced an uptick in their poor populations of roughly 20 percent between 20 (see chart). Poverty in the United States has long been associated with large urban centers or rural communities, where it has historically been most concentrated. Even after years of a sustained economic expansion, that number remains 5.8 million higher than before the recession began in 2007, and 11.5 million more than in 2000. In 2015, the most recent year for which we have data, 43.1 million people (or 13.5 percent of the population) were poor. The number of people living below the federal poverty line in the United States has only recently begun to subside from the historic highs reached in the wake of the Great Recession. ![]() The Brookings Institution does not take institutional positions on policy issues. While these issues have been the subject of my research at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, the views expressed in this testimony are my own. In my testimony, I will provide information on the changing geography of poverty in the United States (including the rapid rise of poverty outside of urban and rural communities in recent years), key factors that have driven these shifts as well as challenges raised by them, and implications for efforts to effectively address poverty and promote opportunity across different kinds of communities. The city's downtown has gone from suffering from urban blight to becoming a cultural center.Įl centro de la ciudad ha pasado de sufrir el deterioro de la edificación a convertirse en un centro cultural.Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Davis, and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the invitation to appear before you today. El mildiu de la papa, también conocido como tizón tardío, es causado por las esporas de Phytophtora infestans. Ⓘ Esta oración no es una traducción de la original. The potato blight in Ireland in the 1840s caused a massive famine, and many Irish people emigrated to the U.S. WordReference English- Spanish Dictionary © 2023: Compound Forms: Is something important missing? Report an error or suggest an improvement. The abuse he received as a young boy blighted the rest of his life.Įl abuso que recibió de niño arruinó el resto de su vida. Los gustos caros de él fueron la maldición de su matrimonio. Los gustos caros de él fueron la desgracia de su matrimonio. ![]() His expensive tastes were the blight of their marriage. Urban blight is forcing people out to the suburbs.Įl deterioro urbano está empujando a la gente hacia los suburbios. WordReference English- Spanish Dictionary © 2023: Principal Translations
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