Nearly 23 percent of Americans who call a major American city home today live in poverty. And the rate is growing: from 2000 – 2013, the poverty rate in the 20 largest cities in America grew by nearly 36 percent, to this new “normal of 23 percent.” Nationally, the number of Americans living in poverty grew more modestly: from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 14.8 …