326% growth in poor population in tracts with poverty rates 20% or higher.
97% growth in poor population.
Charlotte is a major banking center and hub for U.S. Airways. However, the recession pushed many people in North Carolina deeper into poverty, according to a 2011 report from the North Carolina Budget & Tax Center.
In 2012, a community agency serving low-income people called the Charlotte Area Fund told the Charlotte Post it had served three times as many people as it had planned on serving in 2010-2011.
“The face of suburbia has changed as the face of poverty has changed. We’ve restructured ourselves to meet the need, are calling upon other agencies that serve the same population,” Karen Browning, executive director of the Charlotte Area Fund, told that paper.
Based on a Brookings report comparing 2008–2012 to 2000.