There are growing pockets of poverty across the country, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. The study attributes the trend in part to an influx of low-skill, low-wage immigrants to U.S. cities.
But in metro Atlanta, the percent of low-income households living in majority low-income neighborhoods has actually dropped over the last 30 years, from 33 percent to 28 percent.
“Atlanta’s lower income households are not increasingly concentrated in lower income neighborhoods which was a bit of a surprise and unlike much of the nation,” said Richard Fry, a senior economist with the Pew Research Center.
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