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Poverty

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: Helping Students Experiencing Homelessness Head Back to School Without Stigma

Myung Lee | August 15, 2022

“Of all the challenges a child experiencing homelessness may be faced with, a basic lack of supplies to complete schoolwork should not be one of them, especially since education can be a critical tool to breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty.”

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: NYC’s Human Service Workers Deserve Just Pay in This Year’s Budget

Myung Lee | June 8, 2022

“The very forces contributing to a worsening housing emergency are also impacting the workers tasked with solving that crisis. Those who work to find permanent and safe apartments for the housing-insecure and homeless should not find themselves at risk of eviction and displacement.”

policing

In Wake of Subway Attack, Sunset Park Grapples With What Public Safety Should Look Like

Mary Steffenhagen | April 21, 2022

Some in Sunset Park worry their experience of random violence will invoke a response more focused on carceral measures than addressing structural inequalities that shape public safety. “When I think about safety here, I think of how we need stimulus relief bills, unemployment and healthcare,” one local resident told City Limits. “Not police.”

Economy

More Low-Income Asian Americans Moving to NY’s Suburbs, But Services Haven’t Caught Up: Report

David Brand | October 14, 2021

Researchers from the Asian American Federation (AAF) found that about 290,000 Asian Americans in the New York City Metropolitan Area experienced poverty in 2019, up from 252,000 in 2010.

covid relief

COVID Cash Assistance Helped 1 Million New Yorkers Avoid Poverty, Report Finds

David Brand | October 6, 2021

Researchers said their findings counter a narrative that stimulus payments and unemployment benefits were “too generous” and disincentivized work.

Poverty

Expanding NY’s Earned Income Tax Credit Could Aid Thousands of Immigrant Families

Daniel Parra | September 23, 2021

Federal and state eligibility rules disqualify those who file with Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, or ITINs—a common practice among immigrant workers. Experts estimate that there are around 107,610 children in ITIN-filing households across New York State.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: Budget Can Offer a Down Payment Towards a Caring and Compassionate New Deal for NYC

Paulette Soltani | May 3, 2021

‘We can address poverty and public health concerns by providing people the housing, social services and care they actually need—and by divesting from policing and incarceration.’

Economy
Shuttered stores

What’s the Economy, Stupid? A Video Breakdown of a Top 2021 Issue

Jarrett Murphy | February 8, 2021

The economy would have been a major topic in this campaign year even if COVID-19 never happened. Now, amid massive unemployment, a fiscal emergency, and potential long-term changes in commuting and retail, it’s pivotal.

child poverty

Bronx Families Face Greatest Barriers to ‘Well-Being’ Across New York’s Counties, Report Finds

Nicole Javorsky | January 12, 2021

A new report by Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, released Monday, analyzed pre-pandemic data to determine where the level of various risks to families’ well-being stood before the COVID-19 crisis.

Welfare

Big Response, Huge Need: NYC’s Welfare System Amid COVID-19

Jarrett Murphy | November 23, 2020

The city’s social safety net has stretched to address the economic disaster created by the pandemic. It might have further to go.

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