; Poverty Isn't a Primarily Urban Problem Anymore -- In the City's Suburbs.

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Buffalo may be one of the poorest cities in America, but a majority of the region's poor now live in suburbia.

Of the 159,000 people in the region living below the poverty line, more than half -- 52 percent -- reside in the suburbs of Erie and Niagara counties, according to an analysis of 2010 census data by a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.

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; Poverty Isn't a Primarily Urban Problem Anymore -- In the City's Suburbs.

Ten years ago, it was 44 percent.

The economy is a major factor behind the emergence of poverty in the suburbs. Also playing a role are the trend of people leaving the city, the loss of high-paying manufacturing jobs, the growth of low-wage service jobs and the aging population, experts say.

"Poverty, like Americans themselves, has moved to the suburbs," said Alan Berube, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, which issued the report. "It was a trend under way for a long time, and the recession accelerated it."

The fact that poverty is becoming as much a part of the suburb...

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