Poverty in the U.S.

The Century Fund has published a report, "Architecture and Segregation", that comes to several negative conclusions about America in the 21st century: 

• There was a dramatic increase in the number of high-poverty neighborhoods. The number of people living in high-poverty ghettos, barrios, and slums has nearly doubled since 2000, rising from 7.2 million to 13.8 million. 
• These increases were well under way before the Great Recession began. 
• Poverty became more concentrated—more than one in four of the black poor and nearly one in six of the Hispanic poor lives in a neighborhood of extreme poverty, compared to one in thirteen of the white poor. 
• To make matters worse, poor children are more likely to reside in high-poverty neighborhoods than poor adults. 
• The fastest growth in black concentration of poverty (12.6 percentage points) since 2000 was not in the largest cities, but in metropolitan areas with 500,000 to 1 million persons.