Public Transportation and Smart Growth

because of the suburban schools. Their poverty went with them and now they're stuck. In addition, the office jobs that sustained suburbia once manufacturing left the country for cheaper wages and no unions followed those jobs offshore.

Retail and fast food are about all that are left and neither of those will sustain a single worker, much less a worker with children because minimum wage has been allowed to fall so far as this country forced labor to sprint for the bottom.

This is why the suburbs are poor, not because inner city poor folks (read: black) are polluting them in overwhelming numbers. They're poor because the good jobs left and the ones left over don't pay.