2006 New York Code - Criteria For High Risk Areas

 
    §  2599. Criteria for high risk areas.  In selecting those areas which
  would be determined to be high risk and therefore eligible for a  grant,
  the commissioner may consider factors including, but not limited to:
    1.  fifty  percent  or  more  of  those  potentially  eligible are not
  participating in the food stamp program or where a significant number of
  the population potentially eligible, particularly the working  poor  and
  the elderly, are not participating;
    2.  twenty-five  percent  or more of children are eligible for free or
  reduced price meals within the school lunch program;
    3. infant mortality or morbidity rates;
    4. economic indicators including, but not limited to, the unemployment
  rate, prevailing wages, and recent loss of job base;
    5. high concentration of at risk populations; and
    6. unavailability of food assistance programs in the area  because  of
  lack  of provider participation or knowledge about the existence of such
  programs.