…the Washington, DC, region is a region divided by race, by income, by jobs, and opportunities. The divide is between the eastern and western portions of the region. On the eastern side of the divide—eastern District of Columbia, inner Prince George's, parts of Arlington, parts of Montgomery, parts of Alexandria—these are the places that bear the burden of poverty, of lower-income working families and social distress. These are the places where job growth is anemic, where African-American and Latino families mostly live, where substantial portion of the kids in the schools are from low-income families, and where the bulk of low-income housing is located. | Bruce Kratz | Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, Brookings Institute | <