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My Economy

A mobile bookstore in the Bronx “is where my heart is” 

by Anais Amin
Apr 13, 2022
Storefront prices were too high, so Latanya DeVaughn of Bronx Bound Books used savings, a grant and a bus to realize her dream.
Courtesy Latanya DeVaughn
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COVID & Unemployment

The unemployment rate in some neighborhoods is triple the national average

by Jasmine Garsd
Oct 12, 2020
In parts of the South Bronx, the unemployment rate was estimated to be nearly 30% in August. Nationwide, it's a little less than 8%.
Felix Pinzon, an unemployed construction worker, pushes a cart of food donations in May in the Bronx.
Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images
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COVID-19

COVID economy fallout keeps hitting already impoverished neighborhoods hardest

by Jasmine Garsd
Oct 1, 2020
People are struggling as winter approaches, and local businesses are only sort of open.
People line up for food donations in May in the Bronx neighborhood of New York, where locals say the lines outside food pantries are like nothing they’ve ever witnessed before.
Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images
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At some Bronx public schools, 1 in 5 students are homeless

by Julia Simon
Nov 20, 2018
NYC schools plan to spend $28 million on personnel, services for homeless students.
Social worker Carol Graham and Principal Danielle Keane at PS/MS 5 in the Bronx. With more than 700 kids from preschool through 8th grade, more than 150 are in temporary housing.
(Julia Simon/Marketplace
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