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Poverty and Growth: Retro-Urbanists Cling to the Myth of Suburban Decline

Suburbs have more poor people mainly because they have more people, write Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox.

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In the wake of the post-2008 housing bust, suburbia has become associated with many of the same ills long associated with cities, as our urban-based press corps and cultural elite cheerfully sneer at each new sign of decline, most recently a

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