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New York City poverty rate rises

Queens Ledger, by Lisa A. Fraser, Oct 04, 2011. The poverty rate citywide has risen in the last year, reports the United States Census Bureau, with one in five New Yorkers now living below the poverty line. According to the Census, the one in five translates to a family of three earning less than $18,000 a year.


Economic hardships hit boro hard: Census

Times Ledger, By Joe Anuta, September 30, 2011. Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau last week painted a bleak economic picture of Queens, where one in seven residents lives below the federal poverty line and the percentage of residents who are struggling to meet basic needs is far higher.



Wal-Mart’s Manhattan Project

The Huffington Post, by Al Norman, September 25, 2011. Unlike the top secret Manhattan Project in the 1940s, which produced the first atomic bomb, Wal-Mart has made no attempt to hide its ambition to carpet bomb all five boroughs of Manhattan with its stores. But a new study this week says that for the giant retailer to match the market share it has across America, Wal-Mart would have to open 159 stores in New York City -- and nearly 14,000 jobs would be lost at other merchants. This would be the retail equivalent of an atomic bomb dropped on the retail economy in Gotham.


The Latest from the Census

WNYC, by Brian Lehrer, September 23, 2011. WNYC reporters, Arun Venugopal and Cindy Rodriguez, talk about what the latest census numbers say about poverty levels and other demographic measurements in New York City and the U.S.


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