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Title: Hiring Well, Doing Good in Georgia Employment and Earnings Patterns and Perspectives on Policy

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Georgia faces serious challenges in the effort to strengthen and expand the middle class. Earnings and income inequality are higher than the already high levels overall in the US. Educational attainment remains uneven; only about one in four men ages 25 to 34, have at least an Associates (AA) degree. Economic mobility in the Atlanta metropolitan area is among the lowest of all metropolitan areas in the US (Chetty et al. 2014). Georgia’s Department of Education reports graduation rates that are less than 80 percent. Over half of those without at least an AA degree have family incomes in or near the federal poverty level. For the 513,000 young Georgians (25- to 34-year-olds) with at most a high school degree, poverty and near poverty rates reach over 60 percent. As of 2015, over one in three of these less educated, 25-34-year-old Georgians were without jobs despite a Georgia unemployment rate of about . . .

Url: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/97471/hiring_well_doing_good_in_georgia.pdf

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Authors: Lerman, Robert, I

Publisher: Urban Institute

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare

Countries: United States