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Some interesting (to me) facts about NYC from an NYT Op Ed on de Blasio:

"In New York, according to an April 2013 report by the city’s Center for Economic Opportunity, graphically presented in Figure 1, 45.8 percent of the city’s population lives in poverty (an annual income of $30,994 or less for a four-person family) or at “near poverty” (from $30,995 to $46,416 for a family of four)."

"New York City is already where the nation will be sometime in the latter part of this century. Whites are 33.3 percent of the city’s population. Hispanics are close behind, at 28.6 percent, and blacks are at 22.8 percent. "

"Ron Hayduk, a political scientist at City University of New York, estimates that foreign-born noncitizens make up 22 percent of the adult New York City population."


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