Immigration and Poverty in America's Suburbs

Both poverty and immigration have increased over the past decade, and both are growing faster in suburbs than in cities in the largest metropolitan areas, according to a new paper by Roberto Suro, Jill Wilson and Audrey Singer. With immigrants now representing one in every five suburban residents living in poverty and the U.S.-born poor population accounting for 83 percent of recent growth in suburban poverty, the authors examine the complex and unfamiliar public policy challenges facing suburbs that have little or no experience dealing with either immigration or poverty. [DIRECT QUOTE]  Read more