Dowtown St. Paul – 7th street
As an urban dweller I hear the silliest things from my friends and relatives who live in the burbs. Some of them seem to think that the suburbs are like a different world than the city where poverty rates are lower and all of the problems that go with it do not exist.
“Confronting Suburban Poverty in America”. Between 2000 and 2010 the number of people living below the federal poverty line ($22,314 for a family of four in 2010) in the suburbs grew by 53%, compared with just 23% in cities. In 2010 roughly 15.3m poor people lived in the suburbs, compared with 12.8m in cities” [The Economist]
