Moreland Hills residents are hurting these days.

  • Moreland Hills residents are hurting these days.

Time for Update #253 on how poor Cleveland is these days.

This time the numbers come from the Census Bureau, who would know these things because they knocked on your door and saw you eating ketchup for dinner, and they say Cleveland’s poverty rate is up again.

35% of Clevelanders fell below the poverty line in 2009, as opposed to 30.5% in 2008.

This article appears in Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2010.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

3 replies on “Cleveland Is Second Poorest Big City In America”

  1. #2? Sadly, I am not surprised. Cleveland USED to be the Best Location in the Nation. Where is Superman when you need him?

  2. poverty throughout the nation will continue to increase. we reward people for being non-productive (welfare. social security, ssi, etc.). we punish people for being productive with taxes, environmental laws, etc. the number of non-productive government employees will continue to increase until our government (as we know it} will collapse under it’s own weight. will things be better or worse then?

  3. Out of two comments a conservative republican with their same ole, same ole worn-out rhetoric rears his pathetic Tea Partyish head. Always claiming that people’s poverty is their own lazy-ass fault. Give me a proverbial BREAK. The working poor came into being after Republicans used their power to make it a reality. Most conservative leaders are not only in the pockets of the corporate rich, many of them desire to become that pocket! They can keep the ignorant, IGNORANT with just one drop of an old cliché. TAXES, ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS etc… keep the productive folks down while WELFARE, SOCIAL SECURITY (heartbreakingly) etc… keeps the” non-productive” (lazy-asses) UP AND HAPPY! Excuse me, but that comes assuredly, under the banner of THE SH*T OF THE BULL!

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