&gt; How can you be promoting the life of the poor in the 19th century when so many of them didn’t eat every day? Well yeah, it’s bad, but is it really any worse than the situation today when everybody’s fed but you have an incredible percentage of New Yorkers who live in the shelter system – including people who have regular jobs?<p>For somebody who&#x27;s an expert on this, I&#x27;m shocked at such a reduction. Infant mortality rates, for example, are more important to me than awesome jazz clubs.