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    Using Data, Embracing

    Opportunity, and Building


    Meaningful Futures
    Frances Deviney, Ph.D.
    Associate Director, Research and Planning
    deviney@cppp.org
    December 5, 2014

    Lets begin
    with the
    facts

    The U.S. added 2 million kids


    in last decade

    2M
    CPPP.org
    U.S. child pop grew by 2 million between 2000 and 2010 Decennial Census data, U.S. Census Bureau

    Texas accounted for half of that growth!

    50%
    CPPP.org
    U.S. child pop grew by 2 million between 2000 and 2010 Decennial Census data, U.S. Census Bureau

    Recessio
    n

    Texas child poverty remains consistently


    higher than U.S.

    22%

    22%

    17%

    Census Bureau (Kids Count Data Center)

    25%
    22%

    Recession Magic: Turning Americas


    Middle Class Wage Earners into LowWage Earners
    Recession Job
    Losses

    Recovery Job Gains

    High-wage
    Occupations
    $21.14-$54.55/hr

    -19%

    Mid-wage
    Occupations
    $13.84-$21.13/hr

    20%

    -60%

    Low-wage
    Occupations

    22%
    -21%

    58%

    $7.69-$13.83/hr

    -75%

    -55%

    -35%

    -15%

    5%

    25%

    45%

    65%

    CPPP.org
    U.S. Job Losses and Gains During the Recession and Recovery, 2008-2012, National Employment Law Project

    Why care
    about
    poverty?

    Why care about poverty?

    $
    CPPP.org

    Texas Families in Poverty


    Very low
    unemployment
    Nearly 60% have FT
    worker
    50% have HS
    degree

    Good jobs

    PublicPrivateNonprofit
    Partnerships

    Early
    Education

    Changing Skill Demands


    High-Skill Occupations

    Workers with analytical ability, problem solving, and creativity.

    New High-skill
    Occupations
    Middle-Skill
    Occupations
    Traditional Middle-Skill Occupations

    Workers who perform routine tasks that are procedural and repetitive

    Low-Skill Occupations
    Service oriented, manual labor, security

    Source: The Vanishing Middle: Job Polarization and Workers Response to the Decline in Middle-Skill Jobs, Didem Tzemen and Jonathan Willis, Kansas City
    Federal Reserve Bank, 2013.

    Mismatch
    Mismatch in Texas
    in Texas
    Talent Pipeline
    talent
    pipeline
    Educational attainment and projected industry
    requirements by level
    Tomorrow's
    Demand
    Projected industry
    educational
    requirements for
    all new jobs in
    2030

    Today's
    Supply
    Educational
    attainment of
    Texans over 25
    years of age in
    2010
    Masters Degree or More

    ** 25000000% 15000000%
    11000000%

    49000000%

    **17000000%
    6000000%
    9000000%

    68000000%

    Bachelors Degree

    Associates Degree

    Less Than an AA Degree

    Sources: ACS, CPS, Moodys Analytics


    * Includes an unknown number of workforce certificates with labor market value that are part of the new
    minimum.

    TX Poverty Strongly Linked to Level of


    Educational Attainment
    % in Poverty by Educational Attainment

    29%

    15%
    10%
    4%
    Bachelors
    degree or
    CPPP.org higher

    Some college,
    associates
    degree

    ACS Table C17003, 1-Year Estimates (2013).

    High school
    graduate,
    (includes
    equivalency)

    Less than high


    school graduate

    PSJA ISD + Community + College =


    Graduation Success Story
    90.1
    87.3
    88

    78

    71.9

    79.1
    74.8
    70.2

    62.4

    2007

    2008

    4 year graduation rate, TEA

    2009

    2010

    2011

    2012

    2013

    Benefits of Pre-K last throughout life


    Higher Educational Attainment
    Higher earnings
    Better Health
    Less Public Assistance

    52%
    of Texas 4
    year-olds are
    attending
    public Pre-K
    2012-13, Texas Education Agency by 4 y.o. pop (KC Data Center)

    Economically Disadvantaged kids who went to


    pre-k did better on their 3rdrd grade tests
    No Pre-K

    83%

    Pre-K

    88%

    Passed TAKS 3rd grade reading

    79%

    85%

    Passed TAKS 3rd grade math

    Analysis of TEA 2011 TAKS data by the Office of Rep. Mike Villarreal

    What Can
    YOU Do?

    LEARN @ forabettertexas.org/data.html

    CPPP.org

    Build the Opportunity


    Pathway!
    Children enter Kinder ready to
    learn
    More students make it through the
    education pipeline
    Expanded access to
    postsecondary ed. and workforce
    training

    Thank you!
    Frances Deviney, PhD
    Associate Director,
    Research & Planning
    deviney@cppp.org
    (512) 823-2870

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