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Article: 3 in 10 New Yorkers Are Poor
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- The New York Beacon
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- August 9, 1995
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Larry Neumeister
New York Beacon, The
08-09-1995
3 in 10 New Yorkers Are Poor.
Three out of every 10 New Yorkers - an alarming 27.3 percent-are poor. That's nearly twice the national rate of 15.1 percent," notes Community Service Society of New York's president, David R. Jones. The poverty report was released by the Community Service Society. In 1979, the base year for CSS's periodic checks of the city's poverty level, the rate was 20.2 percent, with 2 in 10 residents being poor.
Based on CSS' analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau's March 1994 Current Population Survey (which covers 1993 income), the city's poor population totaled 1,951,655. "Poor" is defined as individuals with less than ...