Poverty moves into the suburbs

Life in America’s suburbs, isn’t all commuting and scout meetings anymore, if it ever was.

Among its many side effects, the Great Recession brought into stark relief the fact that poverty has taken root in the nation’s suburban areas. Once seen as a problem only in urban and rural areas, the strains caused by lost jobs or low income employment are now shared by neighborhoods that were often created as havens from a city’s ills.