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Miami Achieves Poorest City Status

By AAN Staff
september 30, 2002  09:50 am
Miami Achieves Poorest City Status
According to no less an authority than the 2000 census, Miami is now the poorest big city in America. In a two-part series of stories that begins this week, Miami New Times' writers and editors explore Miami's fascinating shadow economy, a thriving black-market system that makes it possible to live one's life entirely off the books. They explain how public-housing fiascos have turned neighborhoods into ghost towns, with a crippling effect on the small businesses that depended on the residents -- even if those residents happened to be drug dealers.
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