Syracuse's Alarming Poverty Rate Keeps Rising in 2016: 13th Worst in U.S.

By Mark Weiner

WASHINGTON -- Syracuse's desperate poverty rate worsened last year, even while poverty rates improved in most of the country, new Census numbers show.

Syracuse's 2016 poverty rate was 13^th worst in the United States, the Census Bureau reported today.

Syracuse stood out for the wrong reasons. The rest of the nation fell to its lowest poverty rate since 2007, before the arrival of the Great Recession. Most Upstate New York cities saw their rates drop or stay steady.

The nation's poverty rate fell to 12.7 percent in 2016, while the incomes of middle-class Americans increased to the highest level ever recorded by the Census Bureau.

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Source: syracuse.com (via The Empire Report)