Posted on 04/05/2006 7:22:00 PM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco's nonwhite residents make even less compared to whites than they do across the country, and middle-income jobs are vanishing here faster than the national average, a new study released by the city on Wednesday shows.
The detailed analysis, a first for San Francisco and unusual anywhere in the United States, also shows how directly education affects Bay Area residents' ability to earn a living.
San Francisco workers who have a four-year college degree earned an average of $72,850 in 2004, while those without a high school diploma earned $18,897. A high school diploma brought average earnings up to $29,955, and workers who attended a little college or earned an associates degree made an average of $39,965, reported Ted Egan, director of analysis for ICF consulting in San Francisco and a UC Berkeley instructor.
Funded by Proposition I, passed by voters in November 2004, the study is part of a series to be released over the course of 2006 and updated every 3 years.
Mayor Gavin Newsom said the data will help the city develop a strategy for economic development and for increasing and improving the training it offers local workers.
"We won't have to shoot from the hip and react to today's fight or plight," he said. "It will sharpen what we are working on and show us what we have to abandon."
Minorities' wages lag whites' in part because they tend to have less education, Egan said.
Sixty-three percent of white San Francisco residents hold four-year degrees, compared to 38 percent of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, 25 percent of Latinos and 21 percent of African Americans
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Education? Marriage? That's for white people.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Somewhere, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and the rest of the Democrats are smiling, secure in the knowledge their "keep 'em from getting uppity" strategy continues to work.
Are Asians considerd Minorinites in this case?
Not really, it is the choices they make. For example, Maria Cesar does not speak English, and changes sheets at the local Motel 6, making $8/hr. Shaquille Jamal works at a gas station making $7.75/hr. Tanisha, Shaquille's sister is a gang-member and prostitute, her pimp pays her around $1000/month. Meanwhile Chiang Yu works in the Intel R&D department in Santa Clara making $145,000/year.
So who do you blame?
I believe SF also has a lot of legal immigrants who came to America at an age when it was hard for them to learn English (or they were surrounded by people speaking their language so could get by with it)...that would tend to exclude them from well-paid jobs. Look at how much lower the percentage of Asians getting 4-year degrees is than of whites--38% vs 63%. When young Asian-Americans are famous for studying harder than any other group, that discrepancy must be disproportionately among older people.
Yes they are. Read the article and you will see that Asians are included. Lots of low-income Chinese there.
Now I understand Shrillary's remark about the plantation.
Our view is very skewed because we are only exposed to the cream of the crop from Asia. The people who did well in school and came to the United States for graduate school. The first generation asian immigrants arrived with a great work ethic and a sincere desire to see their children succeed. We'll see whether that attitude is passed down the generations.
The black community has a cultural problem with academic success. The "too white" description is a telling attitude among the student's peer group. Poor academic performance leads to poor economic performance as an adult. That can become a generational legacy.
Simply having a degree isn't the whole story. Lots of people graduate from college. Having that on your resume avoids having it dropped in the trash on the first pass of weeding out potential candidates from hundreds of applicants.
This story is nonsense. San Francisco is a very wealthy city. People come from all over the country and all over the world to take high-paying jobs in medicine, law, finance, computers, biotech, multimedia, management, advertising, etc. You can't afford a house, and you can't really afford to have children here unless you're making pretty big bucks. The professionals are predominantly white, just like everywhere else. San Francisco also has some housing projects and relatively poor neighborhoods. The people in these places are predominantly black and latino, with some asian and pacific islander folks as well. So on one side you have these high-paying professionals, and on the other side you have janitors, warehousemen, diswashers, etc., and unemployed. There are relatively few white people who move to S.F. these days without a college degree and a profession. The folks showing up from Mexico, Central America, and Asia, and those growing up in the projects don't have the education and the skills to get the good gigs. Race and racism have absolutely nothing to do with it.
San Francisco workers who have a four-year college degree earned an average of $72,850 in 2004,
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Based on housing prices found on the internet, this income is insufficient for anything above bare subsistence. I can't imagine how people earning $20,000. are surviving in San Fran.
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