Most Americans tend to think poverty is concentrated in urban areas, but a look at the numbers offers a rebuttal to that conventional notion. “It’s been a shift over to the suburbs for quite some time,” said Elizabeth Kneebone, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research scholar and a fellow of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program.

(Mar. 3) – “Evicted” immerses readers in the lives of families and individuals in Milwaukee in 2008 and 2009, people trapped in — or thriving off — the private rental market for the poorest, a brutal world where landlords have all the power and tenants feel all the pain, where nearly 1 in 8 renters in the city are compelled to move in a two-year span.

(Mar. 2) – Predominantly African-American neighborhoods in Chicago have seen poverty rise and services diminish even as the nation’s third largest city has become less racially segregated, according to a study released on Wednesday.

(Mar. 2) – The Las Vegas suburbs aren’t the middle-class havens many imagine them to be. In our post-recession world, thousands of suburban residents remain underwater on their homes. Wages are rising, but not as fast as they did more than a decade ago. And some residents work two jobs just to make ends meet.

(Feb. 29) – In almost all major American cities, most African American and Hispanic students attend public schools where a majority of their classmates qualify as poor or low-income, a new analysis of federal data shows.

(Feb. 29) – His book, which comes out March 1, follows eight families in Milwaukee, including white tenants in the worst trailer park in town and black renters in the city’s North Side ghetto. They’re all bound by grinding poverty and the private rental market.

(Feb. 29) – The nation is now in the midst of a fascinating presidential campaign that, as always, creates an opportunity for a national debate on both the proper priorities of the federal government and the specific policies that Republican and Democratic candidates propose to address those priorities. My purpose in this article is to examine whether the candidates are advancing similar or different proposals on how to reduce poverty and increase economic mobility.

(Feb. 29) – Last month, six GOP presidential candidates met in South Carolina to discuss something of a lapsed issue for the Republican Party: helping the poor. The Jan. 9 forum, co-hosted by House Speaker Paul Ryan, played out like a hallucination of the primary season party leaders had hoped for. The tone was compassionate and inclusive. People debated, in depth, real policies. And Donald Trump was nowhere to be seen.

(Feb. 29) – Cheaper rents and a shortage of affordable housing elsewhere may explain why northeast Clark County has a higher concentration of the poverty than other parts of the county. East of Interstate 15 near Nellis Air Force Base is one of the few places outside of Las Vegas city boundaries and the Strip where rents are lowest, less than $750 a month in median rent, according to the UNLV Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies apartment survey of the fourth quarter of 2015.

(Feb. 28) – Hundreds of billions of foreign-aid dollars have gone to fight rural poverty in the developing world since the end of World War II. But ask people in this dry, mountainous outback what has made the most difference in their difficult lives and you get only one answer: remittances.