As of 2006, 52% of the city's residents lived in poverty, one of the highest rates in the nation. The city had a median household income of $18,007, the lowest of all U.S. communities with populations of more than 65,000 residents. A group of poor Camden residents were the subject of a
20/20 special on poverty in America broadcast on January 26, 2007, in which
Diane Sawyer profiled the lives of three young children growing up in Camden. A follow-up was shown on November 9, 2007.