In the suburbs, poverty doesn’t always look like what you expect. It hides behind green lawns, quiet cul-de-sacs, and school buses that roll through neighborhoods where families appear to be doing just fine.
But behind many doors are parents deciding between paying the electric bill or buying groceries. Seniors rationing prescriptions to afford groceries, or cutting back on eating to afford their medicines.
Our executive director Jim Guffey shared his perspective about the ways suburban poverty can remain hidden in a recent op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
