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As reported by Leon Bibb and our friends at NewsChannel 5. My question is how does the % living in poverty drop by over 8% in one year? That seems like some crazy variance going on.... but alas, the stigma is gone. Things MUST be better! ::skeptic::
Cleveland Drops On Poverty List
City Ranked No. 1 Last Year
POSTED: 11:52 am EDT August 30, 2005
CLEVELAND -- Cleveland ranked as the largest American city with the highest poverty rate last year.
NewsChannel5 reported this year, the city dropped to 12th place in poverty. This is tied with New Orleans.
The U.S. Census Bureau released a complete report today detailing the information.
Detroit took over the top poverty spot with 33.6 percent of its people in poverty, according to the American Community Survey based on Census data.
The report said the percentage of Cleveland's 478,000 people living in poverty fell from 31.3 percent in last year's report to 23.2 percent. The reasons for the sharp decline were not immediately revealed.
For a year, Cleveland had been coping with the tag as the nation's most impoverished city among cities with populations of 250,000 or more. Politicians and community leaders have spent the last 12 months trying to find solutions to a problem that has attracted national attention and trying to repair an already fragile image.
Detroit topped El Paso, Texas; Miami; Newark, N.J.; Atlanta and Long Beach, Calif.
Other Ohio cities on the newest list of the nation's 70 poorest cities were Cincinnati at No. 22 with 19.6 percent of its people in poverty and Columbus at 39th with a 16.7 percent rate.
Last year, Cincinnati was 15th, Toledo 20th and Columbus 34th. Toledo dropped off the list this year.
NewsChannel5 and NewsNet5 will have more information later. Be sure to check back often for updates.
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