Reasons NYC votes Democratic

“New York City provides a lot of extra social services. For example, in 2013, 3.2 million New Yorkers were on Medicaid. That’s almost 40 percent of the population, and that number was expected to expand this year thanks to Obamacare. About 91,000 New York City residents receive Section 8 vouchers. Almost 2 million residents receive food stamps. It is often more feasible to be poor in New York than to have the sort of middling income that doesn’t qualify for public assistance or for a $3,000-a-month apartment.”

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-09-26/how-the-poor-can-afford-to-live-in-new-york

1. The writer uses “a lot” far too many times; i.e., more than zero times. That is a sign of lazy writing and lazier editing.
2. “It is often far more feasible to be poor …” Or: “We are poor and we will stay poor because we get more stuff.” Oh well. As Joshua ben Joseph said, The lazy you will have with you always.
3. I don’t really care. If NYC poor people get better housing than people in other areas, more power to them.