According to the NY Post there are lies, damned lies and
statistics…..And that’s how Nicole Williams and the rest of the city’s steadily
rising number of unemployed feel. The
official decline in the city’s unemployment rate, to 8.8 percent in October
from 9.1 percent a year ago, isn’t a recovery for a huge number of residents
like Williams, 36.
The East Harlem mother of four is supplementing her
unemployment benefits with food from the Yorkville Common Pantry, a charity on
East 109th Street…..The government’s latest statistics show what Williams and
the others at the food pantry face:
* New York’s poverty rate last year rose to 20.9 percent,
from 20.1 percent a year earlier. * 1.7 million New Yorkers last year were
classified as “poor,” living on less than $18,530 a year for a family of three. * About 750,000 are scraping by on less than
half the poverty income. * Food-stamp
recipients jumped from 19.3 percent to 20.6 percent of New Yorkers in the last
year….
Wait, wait…there’s more at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/pooring_it_on_FPgV6upTKB1lbSd2xM3taN
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