2015 New York Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 8-A - (Social Services) NUTRITION OUTREACH AND PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAM
465-D - Criteria for high risk areas.

  465-d. 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.