you are on with elizabeth kneebone of the brookings institution. >> caller: good morning.he poverty situation, especially with the senior citizens, i think that the senior citizens are charged way too much for rent and stuff like that. as far as the ferguson situation, i think what's going on, it's a given subject but what's going on in iraq -- >> host: let's get to your initial comments of social security issues and things like that. elizabeth kneebone. >> guest: i think the issue of the aging population is a very important piece of this puzzle as a look at the shift in poverty. it's not as we've seen a rise, there are growing share of the elderly poor live in suburban communities that now these places are struggle with issues about how to help people ag agen place whether don't miss this have infrastructure like public? >> guest: , like the safety net services and support for an aging and low income population. there are challenges around how to provide more affordable housing options. those wraparound support the committee possible for people to age so that' that the gr

elizabeth kneebone. guest: i think the issue of the aging population is a very important piece of this puzzle. because it's not as we see, that's something that happened across age groups. so there are growing share of the elderly poor living in suburban communities that now these places are struggling with issues about how to help people age in place where they don't necessarily have infrastructure like public transit, the safety net services and support for an aging and low income population. there are a lot of challenges around how to provide more affordable housing options. that's a growing challenge in a lot of places guest there is a great overlap where we've seen suburban poverty overall so places hit hard by the recession in particular, because this trend accelerated following the downturn so there's a lot of overlap with regional economic trends. host: taray from maryland. go ahead, please. caller: i just want to say i'm excited by studying the demographic shifts. one thing i'm not sure the natu

elizabeth kneebone with the metropolitan policy people. of what drew people to suburbs in the first place, affordable homes and plentiful factory jobs became driving factors of poverty in th poverty. >> and they're facing shifts in the job market. lower paying occupations are growing at a faster pace. >> nearly half of the ferguson homeowners owe more on their houses than they're currently worth. and fewer than 9% of the city's employed hold manufacturing jobs. just over a quarter work in education services, healthcare and social assistance while 14% work in retail, a low-paying sector. >> we're seeing a living wage for a family of two at $17 an hour. there are not a lot of jobs that pay $17 an hour. >> back in cobb county she helps residents find new jobs. she aid most of her clientele are older workers. he faced one of the major challenges effecting the poor living outside of major cities. the difficulty of navigating suburban sprawl using limited transportation system. >> i would go to work. >> fortunately for fluellen, he got his car b

host: you're on from the brookings institution with elizabeth kneebone. caller: thanks very much. i had a couple ideas for a while and am wondering, some of these groups that go marching are talking about ghetto areas probably to start with and you and hese guys marching the a.c.p. and some of those groups, why don't they formulate a march into these neighborhoods with paint cans and paintbrushes and people that can do small repairs and clean up the yards and give these people a little lift instead of this constant grinding away about racism? i bet you'd find just as many white people there with paintbrushes as you would black people. this race thing is killing our country. guest: i think one of the challenges with rapid growth of poverty in suburbs and with the emergence of concentrated poverty in ferguson and other suburbs is again, it gets back to the lack of capacity in infrastructure, following the war on poverty in urban communities, there was a real effort, a real grassroots effort to create community organizations, community leadership and networks. there was a voice and p

on the next "washington journal," elizabeth kneebone from the brookings institution on poverty and how it relates to current events. later, we continue our look at president johnson's vision for a great society with the discussion on the air quality act of 1967. d, aguests are jeff holmstea former epa administrator, and robin juni, a professor. "washington journal" live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. texas governor rick perry is an washington, d.c., thursday for a discussion on the new politics of immigration. we will be live at this event hosted by the heritage foundation and the national journal starting at 11:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> this week on "washington journal," we are focusing on president lyndon johnson's vision for a great society and its impact today. you can send us an e-mail, tweet , and join the conversation on facebook.com/c-span. ,> tomorrow night on c-span greenpeace founder and humans being the cause of global warming. here's a preview. even they do not subscribe to the belief that extreme weather events are tied to global warming whether it

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