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    Springs bucks suburban poverty trend (access required)

    by Amy Gillentine

    Published: January 20,2010

    Time posted: 10:17 am

    Tags: Brookings Institute, city, Colorado Springs, poverty levels, suburbs

    Colorado Springs suburbs are bucking a nationwide trend known as "the suburbanization of poverty." While the number of poor people living in suburbs grew by 25 percent from 2000 to 2008, the poverty rate in Colorado Springs' suburban areas showed no change - but a significant increase inside the city limits, according to findings from ...





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