Are we saying that the best way to overcome an income gap between the poor and wealthy is to attempt harder to get the poverty driven people our of the area and let the rich live?

'"It's been bad in New York for a long time but this is shocking," Berg said. "When you combine the net worth of the city's 57 billionaires, they have the equivalent money of 13 million full-time minimum wage workers."

He said the number of New Yorkers living below the poverty line citywide increased by about 45,000 between 2008 and 2009, according to Census figures.

Mayor Bloomberg, the second richest person in New York, noted the state and national poverty rates went up more than the city's did.

"We have a great deal of work to do to make sure that all New Yorkers have a chance to live out the great American dream," he said.'

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