The Economist   
      
    American politics   
      
    Suburban poverty   
      
    Poverty, position and pride   
      
    ON SUNDAY, I caught most of a feature by "Dateline" on suburban   
    poverty. The "Dateline" website   
     points us   
    to a recent study on "The Suburbanization of Poverty   
    " by Elizabeth   
    Kneebone and Emily Garr of the Brookings Institution,   
    ...   
    As you can see, the size of the suburban population living   
    beneath the official poverty line has increased significantly   
    since 2000. The NBC segment, which followed three struggling   
    families living in relatively posh suburbs on the outskirts of   
    Boulder, Colorado, turned out to be a fascinating examination of   
    class consciousness and the role of pride in both preventing and   
    reinforcing poverty.   
      
    ...   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
   ... Remember, it was military spending that brought down the Soviet Union.   
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