[Vision2020] Moscow -- the poorest town in Idaho

[Tom Hansen]

To improve economic conditions here in Moscow, we have got to offer students something more than shelf-stocking jobs that expire on graduation day.

How about career-oriented jobs . . . jobs that require more than the phrase, "Do you want fries with that?"  Certainly our city council look into such possibilities.  Until then, I feel that Moscow's economy has reached its threshold.

Seeya at the Wingding, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still.
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon

> On Jun 13, 2015, at 8:41 AM, Don Coombs <wildmushroomer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> According to the post about Moscow being the poorest town in Idaho--
> 
> "Higher education does not always translate to a higher salary, as is evident in the case of Moscow."
> 
> If higher education attracts a lot of students, many who live in off-campus households and have NO income, you would get the results reported. But the results wouldn't mean much.
> 
> Don Coombs
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>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:
>> The Poorest Town in Each State
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>> By Sam Stebbins, Thomas C. Frohlich and Michael B. Sauter June 5, 2015 12:07 pm EDT
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>> Poverty in the United States is not uniform and varies from place to place. Still, each state — no matter how rich — has some poor towns. In every state, there was at least one town with a median annual household income thousands of dollars lower than the state’s median income. In Cumberland, Maryland and Cairo, Illinois the difference was far greater — each had median household incomes at least $40,000 lower than the states’ income figures.
>> Socioeconomic indicators, such as low educational attainment rates, largely explain the low incomes in many of these towns. The poorest towns in only three states had a college attainment rate that exceeded the national rate of 28.8%. In contrast, the richest towns in all but six states had a college attainment rate greater than the national rate. And in 30 states, more than 50% of residents in the richest towns had at least a bachelor’s degree.
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>> Click here to see the poorest town in each state.
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>> Since every state must have a poorest town, and some states have far higher incomes than others, a state’s poorest town was not always especially poor compared to other states or the         nation. Alaska, for example, had a median household income of $70,760 — the third highest nationwide. It’s poorest town, however, Ketchikan, had a median household income of $52,266, roughly in line with the national income figure, and higher than the typical household income in many states.
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>> In other instances, the poorest town in a given state served to illustrate the high income inequality in the state. In New York, which had one of the higher median household incomes compared to other states, the poorest town, Kaser village, was among the poorest towns in the nation. The difference between the towns with the highest and lowest annual income exceeded $100,000 in just 10 states.
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>> To identify the poorest town in each state, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed median household incomes for every town with populations of 25,000 or less in each state from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). Due to relatively small sample sizes for town-level data, all social and economic figures are based on five-year estimates for the period 2009-2013. Still, data can be subject to sampling issues. We did not consider towns where the margin of error at 90% confidence was greater than 10% of the point estimate of both median household income and population. Additionally, we did not include areas classified as census-designated places (CDP). For these reasons, Rhode Island and Hawaii were excluded from our list. Towns were compared to both the state and national figures. We considered the percentage of residents who had at least a bachelor’s degree, the towns’ poverty rates, and workforce composition — all from the ACS. The percentage of housing units that were owned by their occupants — referred to as the homeownership rate — also came from the ACS.
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>> These are the poorest towns in each state.
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>> 11. Moscow, Idaho
>> > Town median household income: $33,164
>> > State median household income: $46,767 (13th lowest)
>> > Town poverty rate: 11.4%
>> > Town population: 24,141
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>> Higher education does not always translate to a higher salary, as is evident in the case of Moscow. As many as 54.4% of town adults had at least a bachelor’s degree — more than double the corresponding statewide rate of 25.1% and nearly double the national rate of 28.8%. Despite the town’s high educational attainment rate, Moscow still had the lowest median household income of any town in Idaho.
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>> http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/06/05/the-poorest-town-in-each-state/1/ 
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>> 
>> Ken
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