Recovery: Half of New Yorkers Say They Are Barely or Not Getting By, Poll Shows

November 19th, 2015

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Recovery: Half of New Yorkers Say They Are Barely or Not Getting By, Poll Shows

November 19th, 2015

Half of New York City residents say they are struggling economically, making ends meet just barely, if at all, and most feel sharp uncertainty about the future of the cityâ€™s next generation, a new poll shows.

The poll, conducted by The New York Times and Siena College, shows great disparities in quality of life among the cityâ€™s five boroughs. The stresses weighing on New Yorkers vary widely, from the Bronx, where residents feel acute concern about access to jobs and educational opportunity, to Staten Island, where one in five report recently experiencing vandalism or theft.

But an atmosphere of economic anxiety pervades all areas of the city: 51 percent of New Yorkers said they were either just getting by or finding it difficult to do so.

Even in Manhattan, three in 10 said they were just getting by. (Fifty-eight percent said they were doing all right or thriving financially â€” the highest response of the five boroughs.)

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