Year: 2012

Today we released a report on record homelessness and its impact on children. Here are the highlights: – For the first time ever, the number of homeless children has reached 19,500, an increase of 18 percent over last year. Current trends suggest the nu ..Read More

The number of homeless men, women, and children living in shelter is over 45,000—a record high. The number of shelters in the City is up to 234. The average length of stay in shelters is at 337 days, up three months over last year. All around, the indicator ..Read More

Volunteers are the life-line of the Grand Central Food Program. They are the ones who come out week after week, drive our vans, hand out food, talk with those needing services. Through snow and rain or in the beating sun, our volunteers are there to make sure ..Read More

The rich got richer and the poor got poorer in New York City last year as the poverty rate reached its highest point in more than a decade, and the income gap in Manhattan, already wider than almost anywhere else in the country, rivaled disparities in sub-Saha ..Read More