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
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
There's no excuse for this! HOW? can this be happening in the bastion of Liberalism? What Went Wrong?????
File under "duh!"
Don't develop any skills = "You want fries with that?"
That town's gonna disappear up it's own butthole.
So race has nothing to do with it. Education and training are what determines the difference
Now there something to live for.
Of course I'm not saying that all nonwhites are illegal aliens, but I'd guess that illegals are a significant factor in these statistics. This is a demonstration of what happens when you get illegals to do jobs Americans won't do.
I'm still trying to figure out who Vanessa is trying to blame here. All I got from it, is reassurance in my opinion that SF is one f'd up city.
And illegals' wages are at the bottom?
how about...
PARTY OF PIMPS?
;-)
Watch this socialist circle jerk of a city decree that every resident be granted a college degree as a matter of "fairness," and then fall back on the race card when that doesn't change anything.
They have a mild climate and the most generous benefits for homeless people in the country, if not the world. They're a magnet for dysfunction as a result, but nooo, that can't have anything to do with it. It's an incredibly expensive city in which to live, to the point that only the well-compensated and the subsidized remain, but nooo, that can't have anything to do with it.
Socialists always conflate cause and effect, and try to wave some magic wand to force the effect. It never has worked, and never will work, but they remain baffled and keep banging their heads on a brick wall, again and again and again.
"So race has nothing to do with it. Education and training are what determines the difference"
No, it is because the libs talk the talk but don't walk the walk!
All Hat, No herd!
I guess they didn't pass enough pretentious, just plain nutty ordinances. Oh well. There's always Massachusetts.
In S.F., minorities' wages lag even farther behind whites'
What about the women and children? This Lib headline writer's performance is slipping!
It's S.F. for crying out loud!! Give the minorities your money so it all balances out!!! Geeez! Do we gotta tell the liberals their own principles or what?
A teacher friend of mine tells me that sometimes when black kids try to do homework, other black kids often belittle them as acting "too white". This must be an important factor in lower minority advancement in school. (Along with the "soft bigotry of low expectations" and too few two-parent households.)
Why aren't the "caring" liberal/socialist/Marxist educational elites willing to tackle, or even mention, this core issue of an anti-educational success subculture in which (apparently) some minorities hold other minorities back?
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