Poverty Rates Surge in American Suburbs

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PBS NewsHour Extra suburbs suburbia suburban poverty poor child care food stamps subsidy subsidies wages costs families parents
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English-Language Arts History-Social Science
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Poverty Rates Surge in American Suburbs

This Daily News Story from PBS NewsHour Extra was created on January 13, 2014.

When President Johnson declared a "War on Poverty" fifty years ago, images of the American poor focused on the inner-city and rural poor. What is the state of American poverty today? Megan Thompson reports on the less visible but growing number of poor in America's suburbs.
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