Business Insider: Over a quarter of the city's inhabitants living in poverty over the 2009-2013 period. The unemployment rate in May 2015 was still at 9.8% in this city of almost 1 million people.
The city's poverty has gotten national attention in recent years. In 2009, The New York Times reported on a "surge in Shantytowns" in cities such as Fresno.
Monday, July 13, 2015
My hometown, In the News
We are sixth most distressed city in the USA
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