As the Bay Area’s economy continues its up-and-down recovery from the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, recent data shows that many low-income households and communities of color are getting left behind.
Also, gross domestic product -- the value of goods and services produced in specific areas -- increased by nearly 4% in California during the third quarter, with personal income growth hitting 5.2% in the state.
This appears to show that while higher-income white people are steadily recovering from the worst of the COVID downturn, lower-income people of color are heading in the opposite direction, despite some efforts to ensure an equitable economic recovery with policies like direct COVID relief payments and expanded unemployment benefits.
"The pandemic, in a lot of ways, laid bare a lot of the existing inequities and made a lot of them worse," said Louise Auerhahn, director of economic and workforce policy at Working Partnerships USA, a Silicon Valley organization that works to foster a more equitable regional economy, among other things.
This phenomenon of"occupational segregation," wherein workers of color are overrepresented in low-wage and low-quality jobs, is a consistent factor in the region's racial pay gaps, according to the report.
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