A Village With the Numbers, Not the Image, of the Poorest Place - Kiryas Joel, NY deemed "Poorest pl
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[QUOTE]The poorest place in the United States is not a dusty Texas border town, a hollow in Appalachia, a remote Indian reservation or a blighted urban neighborhood. It has no slums or homeless people. No one who lives there is shabbily dressed or has to go hungry. Crime is virtually nonexistent.
And, yet, officially, at least, none of the nation’s 3,700 villages, towns or cities with more than 10,000 people has a higher proportion of its population living in poverty than Kiryas Joel, N.Y., a community of mostly garden apartments and town houses 50 miles northwest of New York City in suburban Orange County.
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About half of the residents receive food stamps, and one-third receive Medicaid benefits and rely on federal vouchers to help pay their housing costs.
Kiryas Joel’s unlikely ranking results largely from religious and cultural factors. Ultra-Orthodox Satmar Hasidic Jews predominate in the village; many of them moved there from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, beginning in the 1970s to accommodate a population that was growing geometrically.
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I live right near this place, and it is hard to believe that it is the nation's "Poorest place".
[editline]5th August 2013[/editline]
Ah shit, should have checked, this is from 2011...
[QUOTE]many of them moved there from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, beginning in the 1970s to accommodate a population that was growing [B]geometrically[/B][/QUOTE]
...What? English might not be my first language, but isn't geometry stuff like triangles and rhombuses?
[QUOTE=Riller;41724779]...What? English might not be my first language, but isn't geometry stuff like triangles and rhombuses?[/QUOTE]
It's another term for exponential growth.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth[/url]
It might be old but this is certainly still a very interesting read, I wonder what has happened there since then?
[QUOTE=Riller;41724779]...What? English might not be my first language, but isn't geometry stuff like triangles and rhombuses?[/QUOTE]
Do you seriously not know what a geometric progression is? It's high school level math
[QUOTE=NotMeh;41725664]Do you seriously not know what a geometric progression is? It's high school level math[/QUOTE]
I never heard that term for exponential progression, no.
Kiryas Joel is not THE poorest place in the US, just the poorest of towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants. The real poorest place is Allen in South Dakota, a small town of 420 residents located in the Pine Ridge Indian Resarvation.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_poorest_places_in_the_United_States[/url]
[QUOTE=Rhenae;41725119]It might be old but this is certainly still a very interesting read, I wonder what has happened there since then?[/QUOTE]
Even more high-density housing has went in, and they keep trying to get more land from the town, which they can't do, since they can't annex land from a village (or something like that).
Also ignoring most orders from the Town of Woodbury, in regards to construction permits and such.
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