New York's rich is growing richer while pay at the lower income brackets is stagnating - creating the widest income gap of any metropolitan area in the country.
Urban poverty rates are double digits in cities along the East Coast.
The ranks of the working poor is growing - with more than one in five people in poverty now holding a job.
Eight of the top ten fastest growing job types pay low or very low wages. Eighteen of the top 30 occupations projected to grow pay low or very low wages.
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32BJ, together with the Community Service Society, the National Employment Law Project and NYU's Wagner School of Public Service, held the Summit on Eliminating Poverty among the Working Poor to address these concerns.
The dialogue, which brought together key government, academic, civic and labor leaders and policy makers, sought solutions on employing public policy to create jobs that lift working families out of poverty. |
Event Program (pdf)
Overview
Keynote with Cecilia Estolano |
