NYC poverty rate hit 21.4% in 2012: study

[hrmjustin]

CELESTE KATZ

The city's poverty rate sat at 21.4% in 2012, barely unchanged from a year earlier, according to a report released by Mayor de Blasio's office and the Center for Economic Opportunity on Wednesday.

The rate increased across nearly every demographic group between 2008 and 2012, the report found.

Notably, New Yorkers of Asian descent saw the rate rise 6.6% to 29% and non-U.S. citizens experienced an increase of 5.3% to 29.9%. About a third of the city's Asian-descent residents are also non-citizens.


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[burnsei sensei]

1. Wherever there is poverty, there is social instability.

To characterize poverty as de-stabilizing is making more and more sense to me.
We must shake off the inertia and realize that to allow conditions like these is to invite chaos and arbitrary and disorderly misrule.
Poverty is a symptom of misrule.
Call it what it is.
Make sure that the responsible elite is appropriately called out on it.

[hrmjustin]

2. And of course Cuomo cutting social services does not help.

[burnsei sensei]

3. He fails to understand what is at stake.

A just society is worthy to survive.
Social injustice is social crime, and just because the perpetrator has more than one face doesn't negate that fact.
NYC is a city of 9 million plus people.
21+% is only the misery that has been recognized.
What of the people who live on the edge of it?
Now that figure, I'm sure, would make a majority.

[hrmjustin]

4. Indeed!

I hope the idea of a Working Families Party primary against him scares the hell out of him.