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By Doug Cunningham

Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, Linda Gibbs says a new poverty guideline in New York City has raised the income considered to be poverty level for a working family of four. The revised guideline is more than six thousand dollars higher than the current federal poverty standard of $20,444.

[Gibbs]: “Here in New York City, it’s $26,138. So it recognizes the increased cost of living, the changes in the basket of goods and services that people need to have in order to meet their daily expenses.”

Gibbs says this poverty guideline revision in New York City recognizes the need to re-evaluate what modern poverty really is, given the rising cost of living.