Ferguson Unrest Shows Poverty Grows Fastest in Suburbs

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2. It's very true

And yet the governmental structures in these outlying suburbs (from police forces to schools) are very often ill-equipped to deal with the issues that concern these newer residents.

My city (Chicago) lost more than 200,000 of its poorer, black residents in the 2000s. Some left the state altogether, but a lot were moving out to the burbs from the city to escape crime or just to have a better quality of living. (This massive exodus, and the number of schools it left half empty or more, was a large part of the controversy over closing buildings here--but it really was a part of the reality of urban population loss).