Half of New York City is Living In Poverty

Although the employment levels have rise, around half of New York City still lives in poverty.  The city's poorest population group is the Asians, which has recently surpassed the hispanic peoples. Often times these people have trouble going to government funded programs because they cannot even speak the language because they are immigrants. Since the recession, there are more adults working full time but still almost half of the population continues to struggle financially and many barely make it by day by day.  New York city is simply not affordable to most people. Because of this huge issue, in the past year, the city has discussed letting non citizens vote in municipal elections.