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Reports Cards are in: LA County gets a “D”

April 10, 2014 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

LA CountyIt looks like residents are voting with their feet in Los Angeles. The WSJ reports:

Which metro area in the U.S. has suffered a greater economic collapse over the last two decades than Detroit? Hint: It’s a common fundraising stop for President Obama. The answer, according to a new UCLA Anderson School of Management study, is Los Angeles.

Th researchers say Los Angeles has lost 3.1% of its employment base since 1990, more than Cleveland (-0.2%) and Detroit (-2.8%). Job growth over the same period has exceeded 50% in Phoenix, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas. Los Angeles “displays a tale of two cities in terms of job growth,” the study notes. “From 2005 to 2012, West L.A. had a payroll job growth of 3% while the rest of L.A. took a 5.1% hit in job loss.”

Unemployment in tony Manhattan Beach is 3.1% compared to 8.9% for Los Angeles County and 11.3% in the east L.A. suburb of Baldwin Park where more than 80% of residents are Latino. The poverty rate is 2.9% in Manhattan Beach (85% white) versus 26.8% in East Los Angeles and 26.2% in Compton, which are predominantly black and Latino.

The economists offer three reason for the east-west bifurcation: high cost-of-living, low human capital and an unfriendly business environment. Limited residential building permits have squeezed the housing supply and driven up costs, making it harder to attract and keep middle-income workers. Los Angeles County experienced a net domestic migration outflow of 115,651 residents between 2007 and 2011.

Meantime, “the exodus of high-skill workers due to the contraction of the aerospace industry out of L.A.” has depressed the region’s labor talent. L.A.’s public schools have failed to fill this skills gap.

The study says that flourishing metro areas like Houston and San Antonio with low-educated workforces make up for their skills deficit by being far more hospitable to business. San Antonio and Houston received an overall grade of A+ on the 2013 Thumbtack Small Business Friendliness Survey. Los Angeles County got a D. (Tax code D+; licensing D; regulation D; zoning D; ease of starting a business D+.) L.A.’s hostile business environment harms the poor and middle class far more than the affluent.

The theme of Governor Jerry Brown’s re-election campaign is that California is back, baby. Maybe for the sultans of Hollywood, but the poor in East L.A. aren’t feeling that happy days are here again.

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.

E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.

E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

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