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More Hard Times for New York’s Working Families

Report - March 2006

More Hard Times for New York’s Working Families

This new report by the Center for an Urban Future and the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy reveals that the number of working poor families in the state has continued to rise in recent years.

by David Fischer with Tara Colton, Tom Hilliard and Karen Schimke

Tags: economic opportunity

Click here to read the full report (PDF).

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