Donna M. Brown worked for the Kensington-Bailey Neighborhood Services group earlier this decade, and there she saw the dire poverty that envelops much of the city.
Rose Cannon goes to the supermarket on her $14. But she doesn’t get far.
If a family of four in Buffalo has an income of less than $21,027 a year, that’s considered living below the poverty line.
Danisha Anderson's turnaround was dramatic and inspiring. In elementary school and through her freshman year at Buffalo's Burgard High School, she fought with classmates, argued with teachers and took innocent comments as personal insults. Several times she was suspended from school the same day she returned from a previous suspension.
Life for seventh-grader Davon Johnson seems to run in threes.
For kids growing up today in Buffalo, poverty means hunger. Hunger for a parent at the front door after school.
Many poverty-stricken households are run by single mothers. Where are the fathers? That's a question many ask, from mothers and children to social workers and academics.
Poverty in Buffalo used to be a story of possibility. Think about the people who built this city years ago: immigrants who arrived with nothing in their pockets. Many of them found decent jobs in a growing city, worked hard and carved out a little slice of the American Dream.
Mae Bynum of University Heights chose treating her grandson's wounded leg over healing his troubled mind. She couldn't afford insurance co-pays for both.
Dante Brown is a playful, rambunctious toddler growing up on the city’s West Side. TraJanae Sanders is the same kind of kid, growing up on the East Side.
For kids growing up today in Buffalo, poverty means hunger. Hunger for a parent at the front door after school. Hunger to know a father. Hunger for attention from teachers and other adults who care – for good examples to balance out all the bad ones.
How much do we care about 3-year-old Kae’Sean Fields?
