Economic Security
CityViews: An Uneven Recovery from the Great Recession Widens Racial Gaps
This post originally appeared on City Limits. The Census Bureau’s annual release of findings from the American Community Survey – the tool used to produce official estimates of income and poverty among other important indicators – has brought good new …
Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York Releases Preliminary Analysis of New Census Data Released Today
For Immediate Release: September 14, 2017 Contact: Elysia Murphy, emurphy@cccnewyork.org, 212-673-1800 ext. 18 Today, the United States Census Bureau released data for 2016 on income and poverty levels in New York City. There was a fair amount of good …
New Census Data: A Preliminary Analysis
Today, the United States Census Bureau released data for 2016 on income and poverty levels in New York City. There was a fair amount of good news. The poverty rate declined from 20.0% in 2015 to 18.9% in 2016, bringing it to within less than a point …
The facts on universal school lunch
This week, CCC released Provide Financial Relief to Struggling New Yorkers, a new analysis finding that there are nearly 110,000 public school students whose families do not qualify for free lunch but earn moderately-low incomes that make paying for b …
