By: Allison Linn  CNBC

The number of suburban residents living in poverty rose by nearly 64 percent between 2000 and 2011, to about 16.4 million people, according to a Brookings Institution analysis of 95 of the nation's largest metropolitan areas. That's more than double the rate of growth for urban poverty in those areas.

"I think we have an outdated perception of where poverty is and who it is affecting," said Elizabeth Kneebone, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of the research. "We tend to think of it as a very urban and a very rural phenomenon, but it is increasingly suburban."

That is the problem with this depression most of the poverty is hidden. Unlike during the 1930's with long soup and bread lines.  The food banks struggle to keep up with it in suburban areas. The fact that so much of it is hidden in the suburbs, that is makes it easy for the politicians to ignore.