Currently about one in five New Yorkers are on food stamps, but many new recipients are not on welfare. That’s because New Yorkers are special, and what would count as being in “poverty” here doesn’t always count as poverty in the rest of the country. A new report (below) on city poverty from 2005 to 2009 from the Center for Economic Opportunity echoes that fact, saying that “the official …
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