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Baltimore Is the Worst Place in America to Grow Up Poor and Male
In a new study, the city ranks last in income mobility among the 100 largest counties
The old administration building of the abandoned Packard Automotive Plant, a former automobile-manufacturing factory in Detroit, seen Tuesday, April 21, 2015 in Detroit, Michigan.
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Growing up a boy in Baltimore can cost you.
Male children who are raised in below-median income families in Baltimore earn 1.4 percent less in adult family income for each year that they're exposed to the neighborhood. That means a man who spent his entire childhood -- 20 years -- in Baltimore would earn about 28 percent less relative to the national average as an adult.