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Across the country, poverty is moving to the suburbs. Once affluent areas are finding it difficult to cope. Many blame the economic downturn, but most of the rise in poverty predates 2008. In both Madison and Milwaukee, the number of suburbanites living in poverty grew about 50 percent between 2000 and 2008 – twice the national average.
The percentage of people living in poverty in Milwaukee suburbs grew from 3.6 percent in 2000 to almost 5 percent in 2008, according to a study of suburban poverty released by the Brookings Institution earlier this year. In Madison’s suburbs, the rate is worse. There, it climbed from 4.8 percent in 2000 to 6.6 percent in 2008.
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