Adult and child hardship rates in New York City (2015–2022) Figure 1.4
Any hardships
Multiple hardships
40%
34%
30%
33%
33%
32%
29%
29%
28%
24%
20%
16%
15%
14%
10%
13%
12%
12%
12%
10%
0%
2019
2020
2022
2017
2018
2015
2016
2021
40%
38%
37%
36%
35%
30%
31%
26%
20%
17%
13%
12%
17%
16%
14%
10%
0%
2019
2022
2017
2018
2020
2021
Source: Annual Poverty Tracker survey data, second through fifth Poverty Tracker cohorts. Note: Hardship rates for children from 2017-2019 are calculated using 3 years of data, while rates in 2020 forward are calculated using single years of data given the rapid changes in economic conditions and policy following the COVID-19 pandemic. Child hard- ship rates from 2020 forward may thus be subject to more year-to-year variability than years prior to the pandemic due to increased sampling error. Year-to-year changes for children after 2020 should thus be interpreted with caution. In 2020, the Poverty Tracker sampling design also changed to include an oversample of New Yorkers of Chinese descent, including those who speak Mandarin. Thus, pre-2020 results are not directly comparable to results from 2020 to the present, which we signify with a break in the trend lines. See Appendix B for additional details.
Figure 1.5 shows rates of material hardship by domain for adults, as well as the share of children facing each form of hardship. Between 2021 and 2022, we see increases in hardship across nearly all domains for both adults and children.
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