The agency ACT Rochester and the Rochester Area Community Foundation have released a report which finds the status of African American and Latino residents of the nine-county Rochester region lags significantly behind the rest of the state. The report “Hard Facts: Race and Ethnicity in the Rochester Area” looks at the educational and economic achievements […]
Governor Cuomo says nearly $16 million in state funding will go into three Rochester projects aimed at reducing poverty in the Finger Lakes Region. All three were chosen by the Finger lakes Regional Economic Development Council under its “One Community” plan. They’re Monroe Community College’s new Finger Lakes Workforce Development Center at Eastman Business Park, […]
ACT Rochester and the Rochester Area Community Foundation have updated their three-year-old report on poverty in Rochester, and they find it’s getting worse. The report looks at the entire nine-county Rochester region, the state of poverty and self-sufficiency and efforts to address the problems. It finds the regional poverty rate based on government statistics to […]