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Tuscaloosa has been named as one of the top 10 U.S. cities to buck the national poverty trend.
SmartAsset.com, a New York City-based economic advisory company, released a its study this week that placed Tuscaloosa in ninth place nationally for reducing its poverty rate over a 10-year period of 2005 to 2014.
Whereas the national poverty rate has increased by 2.2 percent — about 1 million people — in the past decade, the Tuscaloosa metropolitan area’s rate of poverty has actually decreased by 5.3 percent, said SmartAsset data editor Nick Wallace…