The State of Working East Bay, 2015-2019

east-bay-2015-2019/ The state of working East Bay, 2015-2019 2 Executive summary This report examines the state of work in the East Bay prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.1 We find that even before the pandemic, when the economy was strong by conventional economic metrics and had recovered from the Great Recession, many East Bay workers were earning l. [...] Earnings, income, and poverty This report updates the analyses in the report “The State of Work in the East Bay and Oakland,”2 authored by the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy in 2012.3 That report documented that East Bay workers were struggling with low wages, poverty, and growing inequality due to the Great Recession. [...] The state of working East Bay, 2015-2019 13 Conclusion This report updated the analyses in the 2012 “The State of Work in the East Bay and Oakland” report, authored by the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, that documented the struggle of East Bay workers with low wages, near poverty, and growing inequality due to the Great Recession. [...] For history, critiques, and alternatives to the rent-ratio standard check out Airgood-Obrycki, Hermann, and Wedeen (2022),16 Belsky, Goodman, and Drew (2005),17 HUD (n.d.),18 and Stephen Ezennia and Onal Hoskara (2019).19 The state of working East Bay, 2015-2019 15 Endnotes 1 In this report, we define the East Bay as consisting of the counties of Alameda and Contra Costa. [...] The analyses, interpretations, conclusions, and views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, the Regents of the University of California, or collaborating organizations or funders.