Add to ORKGWhile Erie County’s unemployment rate and levels of poverty are better than the state and national averages, not everyone is benefitting from our resurgent economy. In fact, many at the lowest rung of the economic ladder are being left behind, and income inequality is now putting at risk the middle class. Poverty plays a profound role in the educational challenges in a city where nearly one in two students does not graduate high school on time. Poverty also contributes to high rates of adult illiteracy, poor health, criminal activity, homelessness, unemployment, and dependency on limited government services.DataDemographicsHistory__Buffalo_Poverty_Research_Workshop_Opening_Remarks.pdf: 16 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
The biggest problem facing Buffalo’s public schools is the fact that many students live in poverty, ...
Is education the key to getting low-wage workers out of poverty and into higher paying, middle class...
New York was the only state where both poverty and income exceeded national levels in 2005, with 13....
This policy report examines the scope of poverty and inequality in Buffalo-Niagara, the causes of po...
Poverty rates are highest in the urban centers of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and Lockport, and on the T...
The biggest problem facing Buffalo’s public schools is the fact that most of the students live in po...
The combination of densely concentrated, racialized poverty with housing vacancy, abandonment, and b...
Recently, Buffalo awoke to find that it had become the second-poorest major city in the nation, trai...
Southwestern Pennsylvania is experiencing a shift of its more than 740,000 living in poverty and nea...
Recently, Buffalo awoke to find that it had become the second-poorest major city in the nation, trai...
Buffalo is the nation’s third most impoverished city. Buffalo’s East Side and West Side neighborhood...
This working paper analyzes recently released estimates of poverty and economic conditions data from...
The Buffalo Creek Casino will exacerbate Buffalo’s poverty. Casinos, especially urban casinos, attra...
The local economy is often discussed in terms of the Buffalo-Niagara Metropolitan Statistical Area (...
Studies show that the quality of a child’s education is largely dependent on her family’s wealth, ra...
The biggest problem facing Buffalo’s public schools is the fact that many students live in poverty, ...
Is education the key to getting low-wage workers out of poverty and into higher paying, middle class...
New York was the only state where both poverty and income exceeded national levels in 2005, with 13....
This policy report examines the scope of poverty and inequality in Buffalo-Niagara, the causes of po...
Poverty rates are highest in the urban centers of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and Lockport, and on the T...
The biggest problem facing Buffalo’s public schools is the fact that most of the students live in po...
The combination of densely concentrated, racialized poverty with housing vacancy, abandonment, and b...
Recently, Buffalo awoke to find that it had become the second-poorest major city in the nation, trai...
Southwestern Pennsylvania is experiencing a shift of its more than 740,000 living in poverty and nea...
Recently, Buffalo awoke to find that it had become the second-poorest major city in the nation, trai...
Buffalo is the nation’s third most impoverished city. Buffalo’s East Side and West Side neighborhood...
This working paper analyzes recently released estimates of poverty and economic conditions data from...
The Buffalo Creek Casino will exacerbate Buffalo’s poverty. Casinos, especially urban casinos, attra...
The local economy is often discussed in terms of the Buffalo-Niagara Metropolitan Statistical Area (...
Studies show that the quality of a child’s education is largely dependent on her family’s wealth, ra...
The biggest problem facing Buffalo’s public schools is the fact that many students live in poverty, ...
Is education the key to getting low-wage workers out of poverty and into higher paying, middle class...
New York was the only state where both poverty and income exceeded national levels in 2005, with 13....