{"id":3812,"date":"2016-02-01T17:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T23:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2016-03-26T16:07:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:07:24","slug":"update-on-detroit-skills-gaps-job-mismatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2016\/02\/update-on-detroit-skills-gaps-job-mismatches.html","title":{"rendered":"Update on Detroit: skills gaps, job mismatches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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For you data-lovers, there\u2019s a new report out, commissioned by JP Morgan Chase, \u201cDetroit\u2019s Untapped Talent: Jobs and On-Ramps Needed; CSW Workforce System Mapping Report: Part I<\/a>,\u201d as linked to by the Detroit News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The report is sobering.<\/p>\n

In 2014, there were 278,000 residents of Detroit aged 16 to\u00a064 years in the labor force, compared to 168,000 residents\u00a0who were not in the labor force. The overall labor force\u00a0participation rate for city of Detroit residents in this age range\u00a0was 62%, which is much lower than in neighboring Macomb\u00a0and Oakland counties (76% and 77% respectively) and the\u00a0state of Michigan (72%). It is also lower than comparison\u00a0cities such as Cleveland and Atlanta (68% and 72%). To\u00a0reach the same labor force participation rate as the state of\u00a0Michigan, 43,300 Detroit residents would need to enter the\u00a0labor force.<\/p>\n

Of the 278,000 residents in the labor force, 60,500 were\u00a0unemployed (21.7%), for a total of 229,000 individuals who\u00a0are either unemployed or not participating in the labor force.\u00a0This is much higher than the surrounding counties (7% in\u00a0Macomb and 6% in Oakland) and comparison cities (ranging\u00a0from 6% in Nashville to 19% in Cleveland).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among the difficulties Detroiters face are the simple lack of jobs in Detroit \u2014 115,000 already commute outside\u00a0the city, and others would fill more job openings there, but are limited by transit difficulties; there are more reverse commute options than you\u2019d think for heading out to the suburbs, but still not enough, and car insurance rates range from $2,500 \u2013 $5,000 per year, out of reach for the poor.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, jobs in Detroit are filled largely by suburban residents \u2014 nearly three times as many Detroit workers come from the \u2018burbs (176,000) as live and work in the city (63,500) \u2014 and the reason for this is that those jobs demand a skill level greater than Detroit\u2019s workers, taken as a whole, possess: \u00a066% of Detroit jobs require at least some college, a level of education that only 48% of the population possesses, and significant numbers of city residents have very low levels of education or skill. \u00a0One estimate is that 47% of Detroit adults are functionally illiterate. \u00a0To enable Detroit\u2019s unemployed to find work, and those not in the labor force at all to begin to search for work, Detroit would need significant numbers of low-skill jobs in the city or accessible by existing or new transit links.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the solution? \u00a0Well, the reader is promised a forthcoming companion report with proposals and partnerships, so we\u2019ll see, but the usual approach in Detroit has historically been one Big Project (new arenas, etc.) after the next.<\/p>\n

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