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"almost half of New Yorkers living near or below the poverty line" This really looks crazy to me.
by danmaz74 13y ago
"almost half of New Yorkers living near or below the poverty line" This really looks crazy to me.
- kingkawn 13y agoThey have been made invisible under Bloomberg.
- eli 13y agoSeems a lot to lay at one man's feet
- kingkawn 13y agoIt would be presumptuous to lay the direction of NYC over this era at the feet of anyone else. I think he's had a tremendous impact on the city. Some of it has been really nice for a part of the population, but the neglect is starting to burst through the seams of his tidy-departing gifts to de Blasio.
- gadders 13y agoProbably because it will be on a measure of relative, rather than absolute, poverty which can be defined to be whatever people would like it to be.
- danmaz74 13y agoYou mean that the line is drawn per-city? I would expect it to be national.
- danielweber 13y agoNew York subsidizes housing for the poor. A histogram of income in Manhattan is a bathtub curve, with a bunch of poor people that are being encouraged to live there, essentially none in the middle, and then a whole lot of people above 100K.