Toledo Blade: 1 in 4 Toledo residents live in poverty
Life is pretty rough in southeast Michigan these days, but it’s no picnic either for our neighbors and friends in northwest Ohio. Just drive 15 miles on I-75 from Monroe, Mich., to Toledo, Ohio, and here is a headline of the day …
The Toledo Blade is reporting today US ranks Toledo as nation’s 8th-most impoverished.
A snippet:
The latest U.S. Census Bureau poverty statistics rank Toledo the nation’s eighth most impoverished city, with 24.7 percent of its residents living below the poverty line. That’s nearly twice the national poverty rate of 13.2 percent.
Many believe the situation is worse now locally and nationally, given that those Census figures were based on late 2008 data. America’s economic crisis worsened during the first half of 2009.
Posted: February 14th, 2010 under Financial crisis / recession, In the News.
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