The Recession, Poverty, and the Suburbs = Suburbs take hit as US poverty climbs in downturn + Help lags

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not see what many of U.S. are seeing...
a 2nd lost decade.

These article tell the story of the W years - since 2000.
What the posting below shows U.S. is that the economy is stuck - in neutral.
At the bottom of a RE and jobless mess.

Many now see that this, not just, might last for all of this decade.

Japan - doubled.
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Since 2000, suburbs have seen the number of poor residents increase by 37 percent--well above the national growth rate and more than double the pace of growth seen in the city poor population.
And while the second year of the Great Recession brought a similar magnitude of increases in both city and suburban poverty, by 2009 the suburbs were still home to 1.6 million more poor than cities.
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Additional findings:
_Poor people's requests to nonprofit groups for help buying food, paying bills and making housing payments generally jumped 30 percent between 2008 and 2009. About 3 out of 4 nonprofit groups reported more requests from people who had never sought help before.
_Almost half of the nonprofit groups serving the suburban poor reported they had lost substantial government or private-sector aid in the last year. Many of them were expecting additional cuts in 2011.
_Suburban nonprofit groups were often spread across multiple counties, cities or townships. That made it difficult to coordinate services across sprawling areas or obtain money, compared with cities where poverty was more concentrated.

_Private philanthropic support for nonprofit social service groups more often helped the poor in cities than in suburbs, due partly to a belief that cities needed more help
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The Recession, Poverty, and the Suburbs
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-avenue/78242/the-recession-poverty-and-the-suburbs
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Suburbs take hit as US poverty climbs in downturn
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101007/ap_on_bi_ge/us_impoverished_suburbs
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Poverty rises in suburbs, help lags
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101007/us_nm/us_usa_economy_suburbs_poverty
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