A new study has demonstrated that much of the country's most disadvantaged minority households are trapped in pockets of concentrated urban poverty, preventing them from getting the educations and jobs that would enable them to rise above the poverty line. Essentially, the problem boils down to one of access: highly impoverished urban areas do not have access to education and jobs, while employment and schooling in the suburbs has mushroomed in recent years.
See "Study Released on Poverty in the U.S.", Associated Press, The New York Times, October 11, 2005