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The Poorest Parts of Brooklyn Are…In Williamsburg?
c/o nytimes.com Just when you think you really know a place, you see it all mapped out in tranquil shades of blue and you realize that you didn’t know it at all. Such was my experience anyway when...
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NYC Ranked 6th Among U.S. Cities With Highest Segregation Of The Poor
Image: Visualizing Economics A poverty map of New York City based on the 2000 Census. Truth be told, it’s not as if this news is…well, news. It only takes a moment to rattle off the names of a slew of...
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Study Finds It Would Take 3.5 Full-Time Min. Wage Jobs To Live In NYC
A rendering of the Boricua Village housing project in the Bronx. Image: Wired New York This week, The Atlantic Cities has been carefully studying poverty in the United States and a few days ago they...
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46% of New Yorkers Live in or Near Poverty: What Can Be Done About It?
46% of us are living under or near the poverty line. While the percentage of people living under the poverty line in New York City has remained about the same since the recession (21.4%), a study...
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A New Type of Poverty: How the iPhone Became a Placebo for the Poor
This is not what poverty looks like in America anymore. The face of poverty in America has changed dramatically from what Walker Evans and James Agee indelibly captured in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,...
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The Aesthetics of Decay: The Dangers of Fetishizing Faux-Poverty While Hiding...
Lately, everything seems to be distressed. From clothes to furniture to Instagram filters, the prevailing aesthetic is one which has the sensibility of something old, something used. And even when...
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Is Montana’s Trail House Really Serving ‘Morally Hazardous Cuisine’?
Takedowns are the Internet’s bread and butter, a mainstay of critical journalism. It’s easy to see why: They make for fun reading with a frisson of righteousness, a feeling that yes, finally, someone...
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Brother, Can You Spare Fifty $1 Bills?
The New York Post’s citywide trolling rolls on this morning, with an article titled “The truth behind The Naked Cowboy and other panhandlers.” Whatever “truth” may have been uncovered is promptly...
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Why Poor and Violent Equals Black: Or How the Media Distorts Our Perception...
This white family would no longer be considered the face of poverty in America Right now, thousands of people in Baltimore are protesting the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of city police. Gray...
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Brooklyn Is a Terrible Place to Grow Up If You’re Poor or a Girl
Brooklyn, borough of opportunity—but only if you’re a rich male. In what is perhaps the least surprising reveal on the lifelong effects of institutional poverty ever, a new study by the Equality of...
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The Other Side: “they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy...
The Other Side Directed by Roberto Minervini Opens May 20 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center West Monroe, a city of 13,000 in northeast Louisiana, happens to be home to one of the most prominent...
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NYC Ranked 6th Among U.S. Cities With Highest Segregation Of The Poor
Image: Visualizing Economics A poverty map of New York City based on the 2000 Census. Truth be told, it’s not as if this news is…well, news. It only takes a moment to rattle off the names of a slew of...
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Study Finds It Would Take 3.5 Full-Time Min. Wage Jobs To Live In NYC
A rendering of the Boricua Village housing project in the Bronx. Image: Wired New York This week, The Atlantic Cities has been carefully studying poverty in the United States and a few days ago they...
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46% of New Yorkers Live in or Near Poverty: What Can Be Done About It?
46% of us are living under or near the poverty line. While the percentage of people living under the poverty line in New York City has remained about the same since the recession (21.4%), a study...
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A New Type of Poverty: How the iPhone Became a Placebo for the Poor
This is not what poverty looks like in America anymore. The face of poverty in America has changed dramatically from what Walker Evans and James Agee indelibly captured in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,...
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The Aesthetics of Decay: The Dangers of Fetishizing Faux-Poverty While Hiding...
Lately, everything seems to be distressed. From clothes to furniture to Instagram filters, the prevailing aesthetic is one which has the sensibility of something old, something used. And even when...
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Is Montana’s Trail House Really Serving ‘Morally Hazardous Cuisine’?
Takedowns are the Internet’s bread and butter, a mainstay of critical journalism. It’s easy to see why: They make for fun reading with a frisson of righteousness, a feeling that yes, finally, someone...
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Brother, Can You Spare Fifty $1 Bills?
The New York Post’s citywide trolling rolls on this morning, with an article titled “The truth behind The Naked Cowboy and other panhandlers.” Whatever “truth” may have been uncovered is promptly...
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Why Poor and Violent Equals Black: Or How the Media Distorts Our Perception...
This white family would no longer be considered the face of poverty in America Right now, thousands of people in Baltimore are protesting the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of city police. Gray...
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Brooklyn Is a Terrible Place to Grow Up If You’re Poor or a Girl
Brooklyn, borough of opportunity—but only if you’re a rich male. In what is perhaps the least surprising reveal on the lifelong effects of institutional poverty ever, a new study by the Equality of...
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