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LAW Ho Ming/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Poverty in New York City is rising at a startling rate and it s affecting the city s most vulnerable residents children, according to a newly released report.More than half of New York City residents, including a quarter of all children, live in poverty or are low-income, according to the Poverty Tracker Annual Report from Columbia University and the philanthropic organization Robin Hood.Researchers surveyed a sample of 3,000 New York households for three months to track data on employment, assets, debts and health.Overall, the city s poverty rate increased from 18% to 23% and the number of New Yorkers living in poverty grew from 1.5 million to 2 million between 2021 and 2022, marking the largest single-year jump in poverty rates in a decade, according to the report.The child poverty rate increased 66% from the previous year, according to the report.Factors that influenced the poverty rate were the end of pandemic-era policies such as the Child Ta

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