Job growth is found to be no cure for a community’s poverty [barf alert]

Associated Press ^ | Oct. 18, 2018 2:19 PM EDT | Josh Boak

[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. …

[Fhios]

I’m sure a lot of bar tabs get closed out as current.

[Chode]

who skipped four years of highschool, use drugs can't read or speak english... feh

[genghis]

Rats only survive by increasing the number of poor people they can’t have intact families

[genghis]

Rats only survive by increasing the number of poor people they can’t have intact families

[simpson96]

“the job gains mostly bypassed residents — often African-American — who had been born into poverty”

“Bypassing”? Maybe the case is/was, some people simply would rather do nothing and collect a welfare check, instead of getting a job.

Just saying.