POVERTY: Trends alarm Southern California economists
By Jenna Chandler, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif. | |
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26 percent: Poverty rate for working residents without a high school diploma
304,336: Black residents living in poverty -- highest by ethnicity, percentage-wise
3.2 million: Number of total residents living in poverty
Source: economy.scag.ca.gov
"If we do not solve this problem, we are not going to want to live in
Husing is one of several economists who looked at findings from the 2012
RELATED: Dollars don't stretch as far in
Some of the results were alarming, said economist
They found disparities among the percentage of residents in poverty across counties: 19.1 percent in
They also found:
Poverty is on the rise
Four decades ago, the region boasted poverty levels below
Compared with the 1970s, fewer adults earn high school diplomas
Also in 1970, 70.4 percent of adults in the region had a high school diploma or less, more than 8 percentage points better than the national average. By 2012, that figure was 42.3 percent, trailing the national average of 41.7 percent.
Economists said this is important because educational "attainment" is considered a root cause of poverty. The counties with the highest poverty rates,
One in four children are in poverty
In 2012, more than 25 percent of youths under age 17 lived below the poverty line, from 17.7 percent in
The sectors that have grown the fastest since the recession are low-paying
Retail, consumer services, dining, hospitality and agriculture: occupations that have few entry level requirements, are projected to produce 578,721 new jobs by 2020. But their 2013 median pay is only
Five job sectors show promise for workers without bachelor's degrees
Workers with a high school diploma or less could earn decent wages in construction; logistics; finance, insurance and real estate; manufacturing; and health care. The
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