The Big Apple gets poorer

Posted: 2008-07-24 22:43:50+05:30 IST
Updated: Jul 24, 2008 at 2243 hrs IST

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Centre for Economic Opportunity (CEO) in 2006 specifically to reduce it. The centre created Opportunity NYC, America’s first experiment in tying some benefits to conditions, such as turning up for parent-teacher meetings, having health-insurance or even going to the dentist. Last month it opened a financial-counselling centre for poor folk in the Bronx. Now the task of tackling poverty can truly get started.

—© The Economist Newspaper Limited 2008...

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