Turning to the share of adults facing one, two, or three forms of disadvantage, these results show that the share of adults facing all three forms of disadvantage was relatively small in 2022, at 4%. But this still trans- lates to roughly 250,000 adults facing all of these challenges; 15% of adults faced two forms of disadvantage and 33% faced one. Figure 4.2 shows the overlap between these experiences — finding that of those facing two forms of disadvantage, the most common combination is facing material hardship and health problems (7%) followed by poverty and hardship (5%).
Overlapping experiences of disadvantage among adult New Yorkers (2022) Figure 4.2
POVERTY 23%
MATERIAL HARDSHIP 29%
10%
5%
13%
4% 4%
HEALTH PROBLEMS 24%
7%
10%
Source: Annual Poverty Tracker survey data, second through fifth Poverty Tracker cohorts. Note: Due to rounding, some totals may not correspond with the sum of the separate figures.
In the following results, we dig further into the relationships between these different forms of disadvantage. We begin by analyzing the intersections between poverty, hardship, and health problems, and analyzing rates of these disadvantages across the income distribution. We then turn to examine the relationship between health problems and hardships.
36 THE STATE OF POVERTY AND DISADVANTAGE IN NEW YORK CITY VOL. 6
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