The rest say it s remained about the same. The survey also found great differences between life in the city and in the rest of the nation. Hunger is reported more than twice as often by families in the city than by those in the rest of the country. The survey was conducted by telephone, excluding the homeless as well as those too poor to have a phone. This means that the true picture of life in New York City is more grim than these statistics show since the poorest of the poor were not surveyed.
Many public officials talk about the well-being of children as vital to the future of our society.
From an economic as well as a humanitarian standpoint, the city cannot afford to marginalize still another generation of children.