South of the Border

Suburbia: America's Unseen Poverty

By Eyal Press, The Nation
Posted on April 11, 2007, Printed on April 11, 2007

America's suburbs evoke images of dream homes, plush lawns and neighborhood BBQs, not low-wage jobs and houses under foreclosure. Yet for the first time ever, more poor Americans live in the suburbs than in all our cities combined.

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