Fresno is suffering from a double-dose of poverty, a new national study indicates.
Not only does Fresno, vis-à-vis other large California cities, have one of the higher rates of poverty, but its poor residents are among the most isolated of any American city, regardless of race.
The Century Foundation study, dubbed “Architecture of Segregation,” was aimed at measuring the concentration of poverty in cities. It determined that the nation has seen not only an increase in the number of high-poverty neighborhoods, but a doubling of those living in such neighborhoods since 2000.
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