Those who live in this nation's richest county and those who live in its poorest have an important thing in common: a disproportionate dependence on government.
In the United States as a whole, according to Census Bureau estimates for the five-year period from 2008 through 2012, 14.9 percent of the people who had civilian jobs worked for government. Another 78.7 worked for private employers and 6.3 percent worked for themselves in their own unincorporated businesses.
In America's richest county, this pattern did not hold. Nor did it in the poorest.
At the end of last year, the Census Bureau released two lists: The 30 counties with the highest median household incomes in 2012 and the 30 with the lowest.
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Maybe it's the writing, or maybe even my reading, but I'm not quite following the author's logic here. It's gov's fault that Wilcox residents aren't earning higher wages even though most don't have the same skills as those in Falls Church?
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