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Bakersfield ranked as number one city hit hardest by extreme poverty

Posted at 12:40 PM, Apr 21, 2017
and last updated 2017-04-21 15:40:03-04

Bakersfield is the number one city hit hardest by extreme poverty, according to a report by MSN.

According to the article, the concentrated poverty change went up by 40,878. The poverty rate is 23.5%.

 

The share of poor people living in extremely impoverished neighborhoods in the Bakersfield metro area nearly doubled between 2009 and 2015.