Portrait of Disadvantage Among Women in New York City in 2022
This special portrait report provides a glimpse at poverty and disadvantage through a gender lens, focusing on the experience of low-income female New Yorkers.
Special Series: Health and Health Care in New York City, Second Report
This report examines healthcare utilization among New Yorkers with high health care needs who also face economic disadvantage. These New Yorkers often forgo needed care, driven by issues of access related to cost, transportation, and mobility. Inequalities were even more stark among those facing housing challenges. This work is part of a special series funded by The Helmsley Charitable Trust.
Spotlight on Food Assistance in NYC: Food pantry use spikes among non-U.S. citizens amid changing immigration rules
This new report examines an often overlooked area of need in New York City: food insecurity among low-income, non-citizen New Yorkers. The Poverty Tracker documents a significant increase in non-citizens using emergency food services—and how pantries served a critical lifeline.
Special Series: Health and Healthcare in New York City
Using Poverty Tracker data, this report aims to provide a better understanding of the economic lives of New Yorkers with the highest health care needs.
Double Pandemic: Discrimination Experiences of New Yorkers of Chinese Descent During COVID-19
New Yorkers of Chinese descent have been suffering from the “double pandemic” of COVID-19 and racial discrimination. Over half of study participants reported experiencing discrimination and one third an incident of harassment. The vast majority of New Yorkers of Chinese descent are worried about their own safety and that of loved ones.
Disability in New York City: Poverty, hardship, and Covid-19
We highlight the hardships faced by New Yorkers with disabilities, exacerbated by the current economic crisis, and call for an inclusive anti-poverty agenda.
Spotlight on Policing: Despite the end of stop-and-frisk, Black New Yorkers continue to be over-policed
Amid nationwide debates about policing in our communities, results from the Poverty Tracker show that police continue to stop Black New Yorkers at alarmingly disproportionate rates compared to white New Yorkers.
Family Caregivers in New York City
About one in six New York City adults report taking care of an ill or disabled relative. Using Poverty Tracker data, we find that caregiving is a challenge faced by New Yorkers across all walks of life, with many facing financial, emotional and physical difficulties.
Public Charge: How a new policy could affect poverty in New York City
The Poverty Tracker reveals that proposed changes to the federal “public charge” rule could push between 60,000 and 115,000 New Yorkers, including up to 45,000 children into poverty. When accounting for a “chilling effect” the impacted population of New Yorkers is much greater.
Vulnerabilities and service needs of single-parent households in New York City
One third of children in New York City live in a single-parent household with much higher rates of poverty and material hardships.
Lesbian, gay, & bisexual poverty and disadvantage in New York City
Our latest report uses the Poverty Tracker data to look more closely at how LGB-identified New Yorkers are faring with respect to a number of measures of wellbeing such as health, poverty, and hardship.