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NYC spends more per homeless person than a typical household earns in a year, data shows

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City has more than tripled spending on unsheltered homelessness since 2019, shelling out nearly $368 million even as the number of people living on the streets continued to rise, according to a state comptroller’s report. The city’s own numbers show the unsheltered population grew from … Read more

A typical U.S. family needs annual income of $145,000 to thrive, study finds. About half fall short.

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Roughly half of Americans fall short of the annual income needed to cover their basic needs, according to new research. A U.S. family with children needs about $145,000 in income to be considered economically secure, according to a March 16 report from the Urban Institute. About 49% of Americans live below that financial threshold, the nonpartisan … Read more