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To: joseffy who wrote (865200)	6/14/2015 9:37:28 AM
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giant vacuum cleaner in taxpayers pocket A Village With the Numbers, Not the Image, of the Poorest Place Kiryas Joel, N.Y., Lands Distinction as Nation’s Poorest Place Kiryas Joel, N.Y., a predominantly Ultra-Orthodox Jewish village, is atop a national poverty list. The median age is under 12. RICHARD PERRY / THE NEW YORK TIMES 1 By SAM ROBERTS APRIL 20, 2011 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. About 70 percent of the village’s 21,000 residents live in households whose income falls below the federal poverty threshold, according to the Census Bureau. Median family income ($17,929) and per capita income ($4,494) rank lower than any other comparable place in the country. Nearly half of the village’s households reported less than $15,000 in annual income. see more mobile.nytimes.com __________________