The Massachusetts towns and cities with the most families living in poverty

By Craig Douglas

Would it surprise you to learn that, in a state that’s seen a proliferation in newly minted millionaires since the recent recession, the population of school-aged kids living in poverty also has skyrocketed? Or that in Newton and Brookline, homes to some of the Bay State’s largest pockets of residents with at least $1 million in income in 2013, some 11 percent of public-school students live below or near the poverty line?

It turns out poverty is alive and well in Massachusetts, even as its legion… …read more

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