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The nation’s economic collapse jolted many New Yorkers into financial distress, driving some into poverty and dependence on food
The nation’s economic collapse jolted many New Yorkers into financial distress, driving some into poverty and dependence on food
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2014-04-20
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The nation’s economic collapse jolted many New Yorkers into financial distress, driving some into poverty and dependence on food stamps and unemployment benefits and even altering their living arrangements between 2007 and 2009, according to census data released Tuesday that offered the first extensive measure of how the city weathered the recession.
Although New York City has fared better than the country as a whole, recording smaller increases in poverty and smaller declines in household income, more subtle indicators, like the rise in the number of New Yorkers living in homes without kitchens, underscore the struggles confronting many.
The Census Bureau’s 2009 American Community Survey also found that from 2007 to 2009, the income of single people in the city shrank the most among New Yorkers; the poverty rate edged up among people 15 to 64 years old; both parents were in the work force more often; home values dipped; the share of renters increased compared with owners; more renters were paying over 35 percent of their income on housing; and a smaller share said they owned two vehicles. The proportion of very rich and very poor New Yorkers rose slightly, and the gap between them remained higher in New York than in any other state, and, in Manhattan, higher than in any other county in the country.
Earlier this year, the city said its own more sophisticated measure of poverty classified 22 percent of New Yorkers as poor in 2008, when the Census Bureau put the official figure at 17. 6 percent. Officials would not speculate on what the 2009 rate would be by the more complex measure that takes account of costs like commuting and day care and benefits like tax credits.
"The official measure does not include much of what has been done to
cushion
the blow of the recession on low-income families," said Mark K. Levitan, poverty research director for the city’s Center for Economic Opportunity. " The new and expanded tax credits and the large increase in food stamp participation don’t get counted in the official measure; they will get counted in ours. "
Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, said the rising raw numbers and percentages of city residents living below the federal poverty line($ 17,600 for a family of three)and the shrinking income of many New Yorkers were "the latest proof that low-income, hungry and even middle-class New Yorkers are suffering mightily in this recession, even as the ultrarich become even wealthier. "
By citing the data from the 2009 survey, the author intends to show______.
选项
A、a remarkable change in home value
B、a growing gap between the rich and the poor
C、various difference between renters and owners
D、specific aspects of the financial distress
答案
D
解析
篇章题。作者在第三段引用了2009年统计局的各种数据,涉及市民生活的方方面面。而承接上段的话题,可以看出作者是在为纽约经历的经济困难提供更多的数据支持。可见,此段的写作目的是为了展示经济衰退的具体方面。故本题答案为[D]。第三段中提到了房价下跌,但不是主要问题,故[A]错误。文中有多处提到租住者和业主的变化数据,但这也仅仅是经济衰退的一个侧面,故[B]的概括也不全面。而[C]的错误与此类似,贫富差距问题只是在本段最后提及。
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