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Poverty Tool

NYC Opportunity provides different tools to demonstrate how the alternative NYC Poverty Measure works as well as providing data for research purposes.

Poverty Data

The Poverty Data includes datasets utilized in the creation of the NYC Government Poverty Measure. These files are based on augmented files from the American Community Survey.

Data Tool

The Data Tool generates tables for users to explore the poverty rates for various population groupings. The data tool displays NYC Opportunity's poverty rates for select population groups by different demographic characteristics as sample size allows.