Immigration and Poverty in America’s Suburbs – Opportunity and Well-being, Immigration, U.S. Poverty, Race, Ethnicity, Roberto Suro, Jill H. Wilson, Audrey Singer – The Brookings Institution, August 2011: “An analysis of poverty levels among U.S.-born and foreign-born residents in the nations 95 largest metropolitan areas in 2000 and 2009 shows that:
Foreign-born residents of Americas suburbs experienced markedly higher poverty rates (14.1 percent) than the U.S. born (9.8 percent) in 2009. The 2.7 million foreign-born poor in the suburbs represented one of every five suburban residents living in poverty.
Immigrants accounted for almost a third (30 percent) of overall population growth in the suburbs from 2000 to 2009, but less than a fifth (17 percent) of the increase in the poor population. The suburbanization of poverty accelerated most among the U.S. born
who accounted for 83 percent of the growth in suburban poverty.
Between 2000 and 2009 immigrants contributed more to the growth of the suburban poor population in the South than in other regions. In Washington, D.C., 40 percent of the growth in the suburban poor was due to immigrants, while they contributed just 11 percent in Detroit. In 2009, immigrants made up the highest share of suburban poor in the West (27 percent) and the lowest in the Midwest (10 percent). In Miami, Los Angeles, McAllen, and Fresno, immigrants made up more than one third of the poor population living in
suburbs.”
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