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New York: The Three 'I's of Poverty

This is a follow-up post to The Three ’I’s of Poverty in NYC, with the main difference being the inclusion of all of New York State rather than New York City alone. After the maps below, I’ve also included the tables to facilitate an understanding of the full rankings on each poverty measure. The typical story about poverty focuses on what fraction of individuals are poor.

New York City: The Three 'I's of Poverty

The typical story about poverty focuses on what fraction of individuals are poor. Economists are interested in more than this, however, and the classical ways of measuring poverty are the:1 incidence of poverty (what proportion of the population is poor?) intensity of poverty (how poor are the poor?), and inequality of poverty (how unequal is the distribution of mild, moderate, and severe poverty?

Exploring Brownsville: Top Ten Differences Between **the Poor** in Brownsville and NYC

Here are the top 10 ways the poor in Brownsville / Ocean Hill differs from the rest of New York. The data behind the visualizations comes from the 0 New Yorkers who responded to the 2018 American Community Survey. Table of Contents Top 10 Differences between the Poor in Brownsville / Ocean Hill and the rest of New York City Proportions 10. Workers in Family 9. Household Language 8.

Exploring Brownsville: Top Ten Differences Between Brownsville and NYC

Here are the top 10 ways Brownsville / Ocean Hill differs from the rest of New York. The data behind the visualizations comes from the 0 New Yorkers who responded to the 2018 American Community Survey. Table of Contents Top 10 Differences between Brownsville / Ocean Hill and the rest of New York City Proportions 10. Tenure 9. Vehicles 8. Family Type and Employment Status 7. Medicaid 6.

Exploring Brownsville

Who are the poor in Brownsville? How are they different from poor New Yorkers? Below is a detailed dashboard to answer these questions with charts and graphs. The data behind the visualizations comes from the 71,126 New Yorkers who responded to the 2018 American Community Survey. This represents a population of 8,397,407 New Yorkers, 121,320 of whom live in Brownsville / Ocean Hill.1 New York had 1,429,438 individuals in poverty, 31,589 of whom reside in Brownsville / Ocean Hill.