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With all the talk that the recession has taken its biggest bite out of those in the top income brackets, it hasn't stopped the income gap in Manhattan being the greatest of any county in the country according to new census data. Other head-scratching numbers among the wealthy recorded in last year's census, the number of New Yorkers making over $200K rose by 19,000 and the median income among the top five percent jumped up to $857,000. The income disparities for the state also remain the largest in the nation.
The 2008 census data showed that as the momentum of the economic downturn built throughout the year, poverty continued to increase int he outer boroughs. The Bronx remains the country’s poorest urban county, where 47 percent of its households headed by women with children are living in poverty. While some experts pointed to a slight decrease to the number of people living in poverty citywide, Joel Berg, executive director of the Coalition Against Hunger, said, “I don’t think a million and a half people in poverty is a great victory.”
Not everyone insisted on looking at the new figures in terms of the recession. Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, whose district includes a fair share of Midtown, told The Epoch Times, "When we say poverty we mean people who have so little that the coming of the recession, for many of them, didn’t make a dent in their lives. They don’t have enough to have benefited from the prosperity that came before the recession.”
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Yeah Bronx! Way to represent! Party in the ghetto!
We're not all ghetto material in the Bronx, but thanks for starting off the thread on an ignorant note.
FYI: Lived (still do)in the Bronx for 26 years. Great parks, restaurants, access to other areas is easy, pretty good housing stock. Why then, has it not caught on? Can't blame everything on the media. When you read a profile about a place like Mount Hope and find out that nearly every housing unit is subsidized, it's pretty easy to figure out: no one wants to live around lazy people with a ghetto mentality. I may not have one, and you may not, but trust me, the vast majority of Bronxites do. It's a sad truth.
Ok, ok , I take it back. You weren't speaking out of ignorance, but sadly from experience. I just get tired of people lumping us all into the same category, and I incorrectly assumed that's what you were doing. I must admit that I agree with you that there are far too many ghetto types here. The sense of entitlement (i.e. not thinking they should have to earn the things for which the rest of us work hard) really pisses me off too, and I can see why that mentality is off-putting. However, as much as this irritates me, I try to focus on the many good things that you mentioned in your post.
Why should any of this be a surprise? The very rich always do just fine, as a group, in any economic downturn. They do just fine by squeezing the rest of us that much harder.
I didn't know the city had the highest income disparity in all the nation. here I am thinking detriot or appalachia.
no wonder the sullivan laws were started here.
I am also surprised by those figures, I would think Detroit, Baltimore, DC and LA would have bigger gaps.
I don't know about the accuracy of this story, can New York have a wider income gap then places like DC and Detroit?
Why is it so hard to believe? There are a lot of very rich people and a lot of very poor people here.
How many rich people can there possibly be in Detroit?
I didn't know the city had the highest income disparity in all the nation. here I am thinking detriot or appalachia.
Please tell me you were kidding. I have known this for years but then again I read. And I get outside occasionally. Open your eyes.
you're quite correct, guess I'm hanging with the wrong circles. I guess the richies here are obscenely, filthy rich instead of just plain ole rich.
to be honest, I just don't want to think how disgustingly rich these people are. that's why I'm glad when karma comes back. yeah, I know there's no such thing but I can still dream.
what are you a xenophobe? why do you care where people come from?
"...the number of New Yorkers making over $200K rose by 19,000 and the median income among the top five percent jumped up to $857,000."
Are these "real" New Yorkers, or are these carpetbaggers, like Mayor Moneybags?
Sorry, some of us actually studied to get high paying jobs in demand.
Not everyone has the opportunity bastard. Glad mommy and daddy helped you along the way, doubt you were born with much strife in your family or childhood.
Its sick the way people are paid just for studying? Wow great you come from a good family are probably white and need others to teach you about life instead of yourself. Go suck a fat one.
HAHA, sounds like sour grapes. There was alot that you could have done to go to school without help from your parents. Too bad you weren't so smart, huh
You forgot to tell him to eat cake.
This was meant as a reply to someone else.
No, I just wasn't a lazy retard in school. And even then I got lucky. I'm not white and by no means did I come from a privileged background, a first generation immigrant in fact.
The self-made man still exists. You just have to not be lazy enough, and realize what does and doesn't matter.
Even with a nice eduction not everyone gets the opportunity or has the nice connections to make $100,000+. Making $60,000-,80,000 is good, but it's really not enough living in NY where everything costs so much money.
More so if you have a family compared to being single.
There are plenty of us living in this city who hold graduate degrees and still aren't making anywhere near even $60,000. Having a lot of education doesn't necessarily mean that you will obtain a high-paying job, which, I realize, is the point you're making here. I just thought I'd add further to your argument.
there are no sewer plants and garbage depots by central park - why? - fck the rich - we need some wealth redistribution already - tax them and the majority of people will get healthcare and that worthless minority will have to really work for change
"Other head-scratching numbers among the wealthy recorded in last year's census, the number of New Yorkers making over $200K rose by 19,000 and the median income among the top five percent jumped up to $857,000."
Where do you think all the TARP bailout money went?
If you still have a good job, chances are, you got a raise during this recession. I did. If you lost your job, things are horrible. There's no middle ground. As much as I feel for those not working, I have to keep moving...
"...where 47 percent of its households headed by women with children are living in poverty..."
Can we agree that this should say "single women with children"? Two-parent, heterosexual households aren't somehow automatically "headed" by men, which is the implication here.
I don't agree. Not all women who are head of households are single. For whatever reason, their husbands may be living elsewhere.