Ain't no party in the sad, sad city

Brad Plumer reads boring reports so you don't have to, filling you on new data that show that suburban poverty rates are rising faster than urban poverty rates and, furthermore, suburban poor now outnumber urban poor. Poverty rates rose in the Midwest and the South but held steady in the West and Northeast. After reading today's WaPo notes on regional population shifts—people are leaving the Northeast and the Midwest by the millions and moving into the South by even more—I'm interested in what sorts of people and jobs the Midwest is hemorrhaging.

Give a read, but if you'd rather, you can, in fact, watch the paint peel.