Judith Owens-Manley, Associate Director for Community Research for the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, was interviewed by the Utica Observer Dispatch for an August 22 front-page article on poverty in the city. Owens-Manley commented in "In city of need, poor feel abandoned – Utica & Poverty: Tough Lives, Bright Hopes" on poverty's effects on children and the shrinking safety net of available federal funds to help those whose incomes are too small to provide for basic living necessities.
