more and more of America's poor live in the suburbs. The Brookings report analyzes the poverty levels in metro areas and their distressed neighborhoods, examining the change between 2000 and the ...

BELÉN, Peru — In the heart of Peru's Amazon region, a poor neighborhood put aside the trials and tribulations of everyday life and celebrated an international film festival with works from ...

The data showed that even in neighborhoods bordering one another, outcomes for poor children can be vastly different. That ...

At age 3, children from wealthier families who lived in high-poverty neighborhoods were about as likely to act out as their peers born into poor families. The study relied on data from portions of ...

Yet the environmental assessment acknowledged that not all areas would benefit, and that some of these burdens would fall on environmental justice communities, poor neighborhoods that already have ...