More than a quarter of New York city residents live in poverty

NY Times -   More than a quarter of New Yorkers lived in poverty in 2024, and more than 50 percent said high costs prevented them at least once that year from doing things like buying food, paying their utility bills or seeing a doctor, according to a report released on Monday...

The Poverty Tracker report, a partnership between Columbia University and the anti-poverty group Robin Hood, found that the poverty rate in New York City had inched higher for the third consecutive year, with a record 2.2 million New Yorkers living in poverty — 26 percent of the city’s population, and double the national figure of 13 percent. This comes as cuts to the federal safety net are beginning to take effect, threatening to push more people into poverty.

“This is most of the people you see on the train,” said Richard R. Buery, Jr., the chief executive of Robin Hood. “At the end of the month, they don’t know if they’re going to be able to feed their families.”