Posted on 10/18/2018 1:10:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A healthy dose of job growth has long been seen as a likely cure for poverty. But new research suggests that poor Americans are frequently left behind even when their cities or communities benefit from hiring booms.
When such cities as Atlanta and Charlotte enjoyed a job surge in the 20 years that began in 1990, for example, the job gains mostly bypassed residents — often African-American — who had been born into poverty.
That is among the findings of a study led by Raj Chetty, a Harvard economist whose newly launched Opportunity Atlas found no association between job growth and economic mobility for poor residents of the affected areas. […]
His finding challenges much of the conventional thinking, of government officials, business executives and economists, that job gains are the surest way to lift up people in impoverished communities. […]
… Chetty and his colleagues, whose atlas examined communities down to Census tract levels, found that economic mobility hinges more frequently on other factors. A person’s race, for example, plays a pivotal role. Economic mobility varied widely among people of different races who lived in the same neighborhoods in Los Angeles or Houston, among other places.
Additionally, living in neighborhoods with many two-parent families improves the likelihood of emerging from poverty— even when someone was raised by a single parent. Mobility is often greater for children who come from neighborhoods with higher-priced housing. And it’s generally better when a high proportion of adults in a neighborhood are working, according to the analysis by Chetty; economists Nathaniel Hendren of Harvard and John Friedman of Brown University; and researchers Sonya Porter and Maggie Jones of the Census Bureau. …
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Sure you can. Quit subsidizing it.
Easier said than done......................
Traditional families are dead in the black communities. They will do anything for nieces nephews and cousins, but fathers? Nix that.
This disaster brought to you by the Democrap Party. Destroying black families for over 200 years!
Sadly. That is true.
HUNGER is a great motivator to find work.
Some poor Americans frequently choose to stay behind.
Some poor Americans choose to make $ in alternative ways, e.g., off the books.
born into poverty = welfare bastard
As long as lazy people can sit on their asses and get all their needs provided for free — housing, food stamps, Obamacare, cell phone, utilities — job growth won’t make a damn bit of difference to them. To paraphrase Chris Rock, a job to them is like Kryptonite.
Tie a job to his survival, and I'll bet jobs become a lot more important.
Translation: “We’re going to blame racism because it’s not nice to blame current American black culture. Their all-but-guaranteed 90%+ Dem voting is too important to screw up by doing things known to improve lives and get them off the public dole and the Dem plantation.”
Single parent households are the number one cause of poverty.
Check out the people behind Opportunity Atlas.
Nuff said.
And those that feed them on our dime.
A prophet in his own country
Republicans in Georgia have created jobs. Most, but not all, of those jobs have gone to immigrants...mostly immigrants from rust belt cities. I am one of those immigrants. A few have been immigrants from Mexico and India.
Most interesting is that both recruiting firms, and HR departments and hiring managers believe in the old saying a prophet in his own country.
I was brought to Georgia for, among other reasons, because I was not in Georgia. Are you going to tell me there were no Georgians as qualified as me? The reality is that native Georgians are slow to apply for positions. I see many jobs open up in my agency, many require soft people skills with only community college. Others require BA or MA business, public admin or IT skills. Georgians are slower to apply for these positions that rust belt immigrants and slower to apply than Indian immigrants.
Native Georgians are filling some positions. In Every county in GA south of Metro Atlanta with one exception has had a decline in Medicaid members Year 2 of Trump compared with year 1. Medicaid members declined because in almost every county a few previously on Medicaid got jobs and insurance from their employer. So far it is just a few. It will take a full 8 years and more at this rate.
The culture has to change. The mindset of the people has to change to believe that jobs are available and it won't be dissappointing and depressing to apply for them.
Title reminds me of a EU statute that prohibited a bottled water company from claiming that their product was effective for hydration...uh, Fritz?...
Jobs and salary growth at an all time high, women and minorities hardest hit.
If you are unprepared for work, new jobs in your area do not by themselves make YOU prepared for work.
It is seldom that too many are bypassed by growing jobs when they shouldn’t be. People are “bypassed” for numerous reasons in education and training for work, and sometimes they - what they chose to do and not do - are one of those reasons.
Only a dem.......
I was just telling my daughter about a friend who years ago worked on an assembly line. Her job the entire day was taking the axles with wheels attached and sticking them onto trucks. Toy Tonka trucks! I imagine 99% of stupid people could even do that with a day’s worth of training.
The Lazy Americans - of all races - are happy to watch ‘The View’ everyday. They aren’t looking to improve themselves.
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