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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"DC is a place with fantastic job opportunities, there for the taking..."

Agreed, but most of DC's (and by that I assume you mean the region) job opportunities are in the burbs. That's where the majority of the region's poor should be living.

Instead we pen them up in a handful of neighborhoods in the center city and wonder why they don't act like suburban middle-class. As regional poverty continues to "suburbanize" we're going to see better and better outcomes for the regions poor. We'll also see better-funded (since they'll be a suburban voting-block) and more effective programs (since there will be less concentration) to help them.[/quote]

Who's penning anyone up?  I don't see concertina wire and guard towers to keep anyone in those neighborhoods against their will.  If it were me growing up in those neighborhoods, I'd be doing anything and everything to get myself OUT of those neighborhoods and into a more livable, workable and affordable circumstance - and there are plenty of more livable, workable and affordable places to be.  Having grown up poor and having lived in some pretty bad neighborhoods, I speak from experience.[/quote]

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