Pete Cooper's Review on Why Diversity is Inevitable
As written by Deborah Levine on her blog: American Diversity Report
In a recent keynote address, Pete Cooper, CEO of the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga stated why diversity and change are inevitable. Cooper listed nine reasons for inevitable change and linked those reasons to specific diversity issues. Every county within 400 miles of our Southern border will become majority nonwhite in the near future. The same can be said for many of our major cities. The ethnicity of our population is changing dramatically and the diversity of cultures will continue to change the face of America.
Cooper’s second reason for change is age. The United States has a relatively mature population and we will soon experience a large turnover in housing and jobs. Baby Boomers are a bulge in the White population and they’re retiring. In Human Resource departments, 80% of people currently looking for a job are white. In 10 years, that 80% will probably be non-white. The non-white population will be a larger proportion of the population as time goes on; in some Hispanic groups 50-70% of their population is currently under 16 years of age. If two out of three houses now occupied by seniors go to young couples, we can have a great future. If only one is bought and the other two are rental properties, our communities will suffer in the future.
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Ochs Center Finds Crime Down in Chattanooga, Up in Region
In the first of its 2010 State of the Chattanooga Region Report series, the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies today released an analysis of public safety in the region. The report, based on public data, data from state and local law enforcement sources and survey data, highlights conditions across the six-county metropolitan area. A 2010 survey of Hamilton County residents found that more Hamilton County residents (91%) identified “safety from crime” as very important to their quality of life than any other factor surveyed – repeating findings from similar surveys in 2006 and 2008.
The Ochs Center has released State of Chattanooga Region Reports in 2006 and 2008. Later this fall and winter, the Ochs Center will release reports on health, education, housing, the economy and demographics. The State of Chattanooga Region Report is funded through grants from the Benwood Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, the Lyndhurst Foundation and the United Way.
The report on public safety was written by Lori Quillen, Policy Analyst at the Ochs Center. Data collection and analysis was overseen by Dr. Eileen Robertson Rehberg, Director of Data Analysis at the Ochs Center.
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