Johnson City School District

“Before, if you walked in Johnson City, you would just hear kids laughing and giggling. Now you don’t hear that. All you hear is construction.”

Child poverty rates in four upstate New York cities are more than double state averages. The issue spurred an anti-poverty campaign in Rochester earlier…

Almost a quarter of New York children live in poverty, and in the city of Binghamton, that figure is near 50 percent. State legislators and community…