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Tulsa County Sees Uptick in Extreme, Concentrated Poverty

Many locals were surprised that Broken Arrow, Tulsa's largest suburb, hosts a band of extreme poverty.

Increasingly, Tulsa’s poor are living in “poverty belts,” areas where more than 40 percent of the population is below the federal poverty level, according to the Tulsa World. The paper’s Wayne Greene reports: That concentration of need means some 10,000 local residents not only suffer from their own lack of income, but also find that [...]

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