WASHINGTON - Assaulted by the downturn, America`s suburbs are heading the brunt of poverty among persons of good age that has climbed to its highest point in about a half century, making strains on dwindling safety-net programs focusing largely on the inner-city poor.
A couple of analyses by the nonprofit Brookings Institution paint a bleak monetary picture for the 100 largest metropolitan areas over the preceding ten and in the upcoming years, when the U.
