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How The Other Half Still Lives
Newfield, Jack | March 17, 2003 issue

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The article focuses on the status of poverty in New York City in the 1800s. Photojournalist Jacob Riis has published "How the Other Half Lives" about immigrant tenement poverty in lower Manhattan. Some of Riis' findings were traced through modern New York's pain and deprivation by examining unemployment offices, food-stamp application centers and the occasional job fair. There are numerous scandals in the city involving poverty programs, community school boards, nursing home operators and Medicaid fraud, kickbacks to politicians for helping get state contracts for drug and alcohol rehab facilities and politicians monopolizing no-bid care leases.

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POVERTY; HOW the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (Book); NURSING homes; MEDICAID; CORRUPTION; NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State)
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