County Profile
Broome County Details
- Population estimate 2017 – 193,639
- Percentage in poverty – 16.5
- ~23% of children under the age of 18 live in poverty (9,400)
- More than 8,000 (21%) children in Broome live in households that struggle to put food on the table
- Of the more than 13,000 Broome children enrolled in free/reduced price meals (47% of the all students), only 14% (1,893) received meals during the summer
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April Bridges
"Food Bank programs lifted up my family and put us on the road to better lives." Mother of four sons, working and attending college. For a single mother with four sons, the Food Bank of the Southern Tier was a lifeline. April Bridges was a member of the...
Wendy
Living with a disability on public assistance, advocating for change. What’s it like to live in poverty in the Southern Tier? To stifle your pride and accept help to make ends meet? To feed yourself on $6 a day? Wendy can tell you. She is a food pantry...