(i) A poverty rate of at least twenty percent for the year to which the data relates or at least twenty percent of households receiving public assistance; and
(ii) An unemployment rate of at least 1.25 times the statewide unemployment rate for the year to which the data relates; or
(b) A city, town, village or county within a city with a population of one million or more for which: (i) the ratio of the full value property wealth, as determined by the comptroller for the year nineteen hundred ninety, per resident to the statewide average full value property wealth per resident; and (ii) the ratio of the income per resident; as shown in the nineteen hundred ninety census to the statewide average income per resident; are each fifty-five percent or less of the statewide average; or
(c) An area which was designated an empire zone pursuant to article eighteen-B of the general municipal law.