'Santa' hands out $100 bills in hard-hit city

'Santa' hands out $100 bills in hard-hit city - Anonymous 'Secret Santa' Brings Christmas Cheer. A spot with one of the highest poverty rates in the nation gets a surprise visitor. A businessman who identified himself only as “Secret Santa” brought Christmas cheer to Reading, Pa., one $100 bill at a time. Reading has the highest poverty rate of cities across the nation with more than 65,000 residents, according to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. An estimated 90,000 people call Reading home.