3/10/2018 2018 Design In Tech Report Is the digital divide related somehow to poverty and inequality? While urban poverty is a unique American workers in poverty Job growth in America challenge, rates of poverty have Percent of U.S. householders aged 25-54 that worked at Since 2008, job growth in metropolitan areas has outpaced historically been higher in rural than least part of the year in 2015, by poverty threshold. that in rural areas. urban areas. In fact, levels of rural <50% of poverty line 50-99% of poverty line Metropolitan Rural poverty were often double those in 100-149% of poverty line Employment Index (2008=100%) urban areas throughout the 1950s 105% and 1960s. 104% 15.0 103% 102% 1. Poverty is higher in rural areas 101% 10.0 100% 2. Most new jobs aren’t in rural 99% areas 98% 5.0 97% 96% It’s easy to see why many rural 95% 94% Americans believe the recession Nonmetropolitan Metropolitan 93% never ended: For them, it hasn’t. 2008 2010 2012 2014 The Conversation, CC-BY-ND —PBS The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: 2016 March Current Population Survey Public Use Source: Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: Version 6.0, Microdata Get the data 2008-2015 ACS. Get the data Source: @TechJobsTour @smithmegan @lepitts 2018 Design In Tech Report | Inequality & Skills Gap 73 / 90 http://jmmbp001.local:5757/?ckcachecontrol=1520689902#16 73/90