Child Poverty Rates Spike in Some Detroit Suburbs

We naively associate child poverty with urban areas.

But the Detroit Free Press reports that the child poverty rates spiked in Waterford, Sterling Heights and Shelby Township by about 15 percent from 2008 to 2011.

New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau also showed that the median income in the state fell by 1.5 percent from 2010 to 2011, and the number of people living in poverty went from 16.8 percent to 17.5 percent.