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Category: News

New York City Poverty Rate Rises As Gap Between Rich And Poor Widens

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Demali Kenya in Huffington Post
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Homelessness and panhandling in New York City

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Demali Kenya in Fox 5 News
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Homeless Woman in NYC Strains to Pay Her Own Way

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Demali Kenya in Angeli Rasbury
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Feature: Life for Homeless in New York gets really tough

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Demali Kenya in xinhuanet.com
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Revealed: How 19,000 children are homeless in New York City… the most since the Great Depression

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Demali Kenya in Daily Mail Reporter
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Number of children in city’s homeless shelters hits 19,000

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Demali Kenya in New York Daily News read more
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Mayor Says City Has Improved in 4 years; Data Are Mixed

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Demali Kenya in Wall Street Journal
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Stresses of poverty may impair learning ability in young children

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Demali Kenya in National Institutes of Health
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Bloomberg: Homeless Shelters ‘More Pleasurable’ Than Before

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Demali Kenya in Wall Street Journal
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