{"id":7042,"date":"2023-01-31T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/?page_id=7042"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:14:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T18:14:53","slug":"equity-profile-los-angeles-region","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/publications\/equity-profile-los-angeles-region\/","title":{"rendered":"An Equity Profile of the Los Angeles Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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By PolicyLink and USC PERE<\/p>\n

Please note<\/span>: reports dated earlier than June 2020 were published under our previous names: the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) or the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII).<\/em><\/p>\n

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An Equity Profile of the Los Angeles Region<\/em><\/a>\u00a0highlights the widening inequities in income, wealth, health, and opportunity in Los Angeles County. The report was developed by PolicyLink and the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at USC, and is supported by the Weingart Foundation.<\/p>\n

While the nation is projected to become a people-of-color majority by the year 2044, Los Angeles reached that milestone in the 1980s. Los Angeles\u2019 diversity is a major asset in the global economy, but inequities and disparities are holding the region back. The report underscores how closing racial gaps in economic opportunity and outcomes will be key to the region\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The\u00a02017 Equity Profile of the Los Angeles Region summary<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>was released at the Weingart Foundation\u2019s \u201cAchieving Equity\u201d convening in Los Angeles on March 2nd, 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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1. Since 1979 the highest-paid workers have seen their wages increase by 13 percent while wages for the lowest-paid workers have declined by 25 percent.<\/p>\n

2. Los Angeles County\u2019s economy was hit hard by the downtown of the early 1990s and job growth and economic output have lagged behind the national average since then.<\/p>\n

3. Since 1990, poverty and working poverty rates in the region have been consistently higher than the national averages.<\/p>\n

4. While the pursuit of education has increased for all youth, youth of color are still far less likely to finish high school than their white counterparts.<\/p>\n

If racial gaps in income and employment were closed, the LA economy would be nearly $380 billion stronger.\u00a0To build a more equitable region, leaders in the private, public, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors must commit to putting all residents on the path to economic security through equity-focused strategies and policies that grow good jobs, build capabilities, remove barriers, and expand opportunities for the people and places being left behind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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