Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved The State of the South Ferrel Guillory Senior Fellow, MDC Director, Program on Public Life, UNC-Chapel Hill
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity Per Capita Personal Income The South : 1990 to 2009 Source: BEA Regional Economic Accounts © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved Source: Current Population Survey Share of Persons Below the Poverty Level South and United States: 1980 to 2009
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved Percent Change in Resident Population: 2000 to 2010 Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity Overall Performance: Recession and Recovery Source: Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity 2008 Election Results by State Source: The New York Times
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity 2008 Election Results by County Source: The New York Times
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity A Shifting Electorate The New York Times Source: The New York Times
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved Population by Race/Ethnicity and Age Group South Region, 2009 Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2009
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved Source: MDC tabulation of data from the Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau Aging Anglos Median Age of State Population by Race and Ethnic Group, 2008
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved Latino Growth Change in Population, /8 Source: MDC tabulation of American Community Survey Data, 2000 and
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity Metros Advance, Rural Grows Slowly Increase in Jobs in the South, Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved Percentage of Young-Adult Degree Attainment* *Ages with at least a two-year degree Sources: OECD and U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey Note: OECD country-level data is for 2008, while ACS state-level data is for 2009.
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey Percentage of Population 25 and Over with an Associate Degree or Higher by Race/Ethnicity, 2009
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Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved Unemployment Rate by Educational Attainment Level, Years Old Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2009 American Community Survey
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Southern Job Gap Source: The Brookings Institute and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey
Expanding Opportunity, Advancing Equity © MDC, Inc. All Rights Reserved A Postsecondary Peek at 2018 Share of Total Jobs Within State Requiring Postsecondary Education in 2018 Source: Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce
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