FOR PEOPLE

St. Louis, MO–IL
San Francisco –Oakland–Hayward, CA
Settle–Tacoma–Bellevue, WA
Sacramento –Roseville–Arden–Arcade, CA
Boston– Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH
Cincinnati, OH–KY–IN
Minneapolis–St. Paul–Bloomington, MN–WI
Pittsburgh, PA
Buffalo-Cheektowaga–Niagara Falls, NY
Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro, OR–WA
New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ–PA
Nation
At the Los Angeles–Long same time, Beach–Anaheim, as analyst CA Aaron
Renn Miami-Fort has suggested, Lauderdale–West Palm companies Beach, FL that
in shows such as “Downton Abbey” and
“Upstairs Downstairs,” but is this the
are newcomers Source: to central EMSI 2015.2, cities Bureau often of Economic Analysis social Regional form Price we wish Paritiesmost to promote? 69
limit their presence to "executive
headquarters": employment for a small
number of very Figure senior 18 leaders and their
Today, many people earn their livings
by serving the wealthy as, for example,
nannies, restaurant workers, or dogwalkers,
in and Manufacturing other service professions. Industry 2015
support staff. Sometimes Share of less Total than Employment a
hundred employees are involved, as This can be seen in the city of New York,
opposed to the thousands Nation that might where over one-third of workers labor
8%
District of Colombia, DC
0.1%
have been located in a downtown
in low wage service jobs, a percentage
New York County, NY
headquarters decades ago. 68
0.9%
Richmond County, NY
that has increased steadily throughout
1.2%
Suffold County, MA
the recovery, notes a recent study by the 1.3%
The Upstairs,
San Francisco County, CA
Center for an Urban Future. 70
1.5%
Orleans County,LA
1.9%
Downstairs Economy
Inequality is consistently worse
Bronx County, NY
2.4%
in larger, denser cities, including New
Philadelphia County, PA
3.1%
In our core cities Kings in County, particular, PA we York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
3.1%
are seeing something Fulton reminiscent County, GA of the Manhattan, the densest and most
3.1%
Sacramento County, CA
3.1%
Victorian era, when a huge proportion influential urban environment in North
Baltimore City County, MD
3.2%
of workers labored in the servile
America, exhibits the most profound level
Miami-Dade County, FL
3.2%
class. Social historian Norfolk City Pamela County, VA Cox has of inequality and the most bifurcated
3.2%
explained that in Richmond 1901 City County, one VAin four people,
Queens County, NY
mostly women, were domestic servants.
This is the world so popularly portrayed
class structure in the United States.
If it were a country, New York City overall
would have the 15th highest inequality
3.3%
3.4%
Figure 19
Source: EMSI 2015.2
Finance Industry Growth, 2001-2014
$25.22
$25.04
$24.87
$24.80
$24.79
$24.70
$24.42
$23.99
$23.78
$23.73
$23.33
$23.18
$22.14
$19.94
Durham–Chapel Hill, NC
Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia, NC–SC
Des Moines–West Des Moines, IA
McAllen–Edinburg–Mission, TX
Austin–Round Rock, TX
San Antonio–New Braunfels, TX
Boise City, ID
Knoxville, TN
Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX
Raleigh, NC
Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA
Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, Il–IN–WI
New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ–PA
Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH
San Francisco–Oakland–Haywawrd, CA
112%
78%
62%
52%
44%
43%
40%
33%
31%
31%
10%
12%
16%
19%
29%
Source: EMSI 2015.2
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