16 Poorest Metropolitan Cities in America: 2015 List

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12. Youngstown – Warren – Boardman, OH-PA

A trio of Ohio towns doesn’t have more than 150,000 inhabitants amongst them, but the entire metro area has around 550,000 citizens across eastern Ohio and a tiny part of western Pennsylvania. The area around Youngstown has never fully recovered from steel industry’s crash back in the seventies. The city is certainly taking its sweet time, and meanwhile, 17.4% of citizens of this metro live below the poverty line. At the same time, 6.9% of them are unemployed, and GDP per capita average amounts to $34,330.

16 Poorest Metropolitan Cities in America: 2015 List

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