双语：美国极贫人口创历史新高占十五分之一.docVIP

双语：美国极贫人口创历史新高占十五分之一 2011年11月07日08:43 FILE - In a Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010 file photo, a man who did not wish to be identified, who lost his job two months ago after being hurt on the job, works to collect money for his family on a Miami street corner. The ranks of Americas poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people — spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many?inner-citypoor into suburbs and other?outlyingplaces and shriveled jobs and income. New census data paint a?starkportrait of the nations haves and have-nots at a time when unemployment remains persistently high. It comes a week before the government releases first-ever economic data that will show more Hispanics, elderly and working-age poor have fallen into poverty. In all, the numbers?underscorethe breadth and scope by which the downturn has reached further into mainstream America. There now really is no unaffected group, except maybe the very top income earners, said Robert Moffitt, a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University. Recessions are supposed to be temporary, and when its over, everything returns to where it was before. But the worry now is that the downturn — which will end eventually — will have long-lasting effects on families who lose jobs, become worse off and cant recover. Traditional inner-city black?ghettosare thinning out and changing, drawing in impoverished Hispanics who have low-wage jobs or are unemployed. Neighborhoods with poverty rates of at least 40 percent are stretching over broader areas, increasing in suburbs at twice the rate of cities. Once-booming Sun Belt metro areas are now seeing some of the biggest jumps in concentrated poverty. Signs of a growing divide between rich and poor can be seen in places such as theupscaleMiami suburb of Miami Shores, where nannies gather with their?chargesat a playground?nestledbetween the townships sprawling golf course and soccer fields. The locale is?a far cry fromwhere many of them live