– There are more impoverished people living in the suburbs than there are in the urban areas they border, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution.  Between 2000 and 2008, the poverty rate in U.S. suburbs increased 25% — much faster than the national average.  The report says suburban population growth and the housing slump mean the suburbs now contain the country’s biggest and fastest-growing population of poor people.  Click here for more.

– This year’s college freshmen have been hit particularly hard by the recession, according to this article in the New York Times.  Current students are more likely to have a parent who is unemployed and less likely to have found a job.  Also, the number of freshman taking out loans is the highest it’s been in nine years.

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