Catholic students meet to discuss Cleveland poverty

FOX 8 Cleveland, March 9, 2007

CLEVELAND About 900 Catholic high school students met in Cleveland today to talk about how to alleviate poverty in the city rated as the nation's most impoverished.

The first-time poverty summit was organized by Catholic Schools for Peace and Justice, a social action group.

Sixteen-year-old Bridget Kent says it's time to raise awareness about the issue.

Last August, Cleveland was ranked as the nation's poorest big city by the U-S Census Bureau for the second time in three years.

Detroit held the dubious distinction until the government's American Community Survey research put Cleveland back in the top rank with 32 percent of its people living below the poverty level.