New York Politics A Tale Of Two States 2nd Edition Edward V Schneier Brian Murtaugh by Edward V. Schneier; Brian Murtaugh 9781317463825, 9780765600646, 9780765600653, 0765600641, 076560065X, 131746382X instant download after payment.

Excerpt From: Edward V. Schneier. “New York Politics: A Tale of Two States.” 

“The famous opening lines of Charles Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities describe the people of France as living, on the eve of Revolution, in both the “best of times” and the “worst of times.” Much the same could be said, on the cusp of the twenty-first century, about the people of New York. While it ranks fourth among the fifty states in per capita personal income, New York consistently exceeds the national average in the percentage of its citizens below the poverty line, and ranks eighth in the proportion of its residents on public assistance. It has 225 four-year colleges, far more than any other state, but also ranks second in prisons and spends more state money on prisoners than on college students. Nearly 10 percent of its citizens have advanced degrees, but 25 percent are high school dropouts. It is number one in health spending per family, but ranks eleventh in percentage of its population (20.8 percent) described as “medically under-serviced.” While it is often depicted as a state low on traditional family values, it is tied for the fourth lowest divorce rate in the nation.”