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A Portrait of Marin, First County-Level American Human Development Report in Measure of America Series, Reveals Striking Disparities in Well-Being

A Portrait of Marin, First County-Level American Human Development Report in Measure of America Series, Reveals Striking Disparities in Well-Being

Portrait of Marin

Marin County, CA (PRWEB) January 18, 2012

The American Human Development Project released today A Portrait of Marin, the first county-level American Human Development Report in the Measure of America series. Commissioned by the Marin Community Foundation, A Portrait of Marin ranks the well-being of Marinites on a scale from 0 to 10 using the American Human Development (HD) Index, a composite measure of health, education, and living standards.

The analysis reveals that some Marinites are enjoying extraordinarily high levels of well-being and access to opportunity, while others are experiencing levels of health, education, and standard of living that prevailed in the nation three decades ago. At the top of the ranking is Ross (HD Index: 9.70) and at the bottom is the Canal area of San Rafael (HD Index: 3.18), whose score is below that of West Virginia, the lowest ranked state. Rankings are provided for major racial and ethnic groups, men and women, and the forty-eight Marin County census tracts for which there are reliable U.S Census Bureau data.

“The goal of A Portrait of Marin is to bring greater awareness and understanding of the complexities of such critical issues as health, education, and income across our county,” said Thomas Peters, President and CEO of the Marin Community Foundation. “It makes sense of data, brings clarity to numbers, and connects seemingly unrelated dots. We hope it will be used by concerned residents, business and nonprofit leaders, elected officials, educators, and others to look holistically at who we are as a community and to help facilitate discussions of ways to support all Marinites in realizing their full potential.”

“What we are seeing in Marin is a harbinger of what’s to come nationwide, with important implications for where to focus public and private resources in the years ahead,” said Sarah Burd-Sharps, co-director of American Human Development Project and co-author of A Portrait of Marin.

“The fastest-growing segment of the population in Marin—as in the country—is Latino. Today’s Latino children are a critical segment of the tax-paying workforce of tomorrow, yet Latinos lag on the American HD Index, especially in educational attainment and incomes. Improving American HD Index scores among Latinos is vital not only to their well-being and access to opportunity, but also to Marin’s and America’s long-term economic competitiveness and quality of life,” added Kristen Lewis, co-director of American Human Development Project and co-author of A Portrait of Marin.

AMONG THE KEY FINDINGS FROM A PORTRAIT OF MARIN:

Health:

There is a 13-year gap in life span separating towns in Marin County. Residents of Ross have the longest lives (88 years), outliving residents of Hamilton in southern Novato (75.2 years) by 13 years.
The average Ross resident lives nearly 8 years longer than the average Californian and an astonishing decade longer than the national average.
All major racial and ethnic groups in Marin County live longer than their counterparts in the rest of California.
African Americans lag behind other groups in longevity, though they live longer in Marin than elsewhere in California.

Education:

While 88 percent of white children are enrolled in preschool, only 47 percent of Latino children are.
While fewer than 30 percent of American adults have completed at least a four-year college degree, in Marin, over 50 percent have.
Though Marin’s overall high school dropout rate is very low at 7.3 percent, the rate has remained persistent, and the racial and ethnic gaps in dropout rates are not decreasing over time despite targeted in-school efforts.
In Marin, as across the nation, the schools whose students have greater needs tend to get fewer public dollars.

Income:

The typical female worker living in Marin earns nearly $ 14,000 less per year than the typical male worker—a larger male-female earnings gap than California ($ 10,217) and the nation as a whole ($ 11,179).
Though Marin’s planners have targeted employment in areas such as biotechnology and software as a way to stimulate the recovery and the county’s long-term growth, the job growth that has occurred over the last two decades in Marin is overwhelmingly at the other end of the scale: low-wage service employment.
The distribution of income in Marin is exceedingly lopsided; the top fifth of Marin taxpayers take home about 71 percent of the county’s total income. The bottom fifth earns 1.3 percent of the total income.

A Portrait of Marin highlights actions that Marinites can take to lock in human development successes today while setting the stage for significant budget savings and improved well-being tomorrow. These include creating an environment that reduces health risks; investing in preschool, and addressing the lower per-pupil spending in schools whose students have greatest needs; and expanding affordably priced housing to increase options for older adults and working families and to reduce Marin’s car congestion and pollution.

Supporters of A Portrait of Marin include The Marin Community Foundation and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. For additional information, including fact sheets on health, education and standard of living in Marin, and an interactive map program, visit: http://www.measureofamerica.org/marin.

About the American Human Development Project

An initiative of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the American Human Development Project provides easy-to-use yet methodologically sound tools for understanding the distribution of well-being and opportunity in America and stimulating fact-based dialogue about issues we all care about: health, education, and living standards. The hallmark of this work is the American Human Development Index, an alternative to GDP and other money metrics that tells the story of how ordinary Americans are faring and empowers communities with a tool to track progress over time. The Index is comprised of health, education, and income indicators and allows for well-being rankings of the 50 states, 435 congressional districts, county groups within states, women and men, and racial and ethnic groups.

Through national and state reports, thematic briefs, and the project’s interactive website, the American Human Development Project aims to breathe life into numbers, using data to create compelling narratives that foster greater understanding of our shared challenges and greater support for people-centered policies. The Project is made possible through the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation‘s matching grant, which will match every dollar you donate—effectively doubling your contribution.

About the Authors

Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis are co-directors of the American Human Development Project. Previously, Sarah worked with the United Nations for over two decades, most recently as Deputy Director of the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Prior to this, she worked in China and in a number of African countries on gender issues and economic empowerment. Sarah holds an M.I.A. from Columbia University. Kristen also comes from an international development policy background, having worked primarily in the areas of gender equality, governance, environment, and water and sanitation. Kristen is co-author, under the leadership of Jeffrey Sachs’ Millennium Project, of the 2005 book Health, Dignity and Development: What Will It Take? She worked at the United Nations for some ten years and has served as a consultant for many international development organizations. Kristen also holds an M.I.A. from Columbia University.

About the Marin Community Foundation

The Marin Community Foundation is the primary center for philanthropy in Marin County, CA and is one of the largest community foundations in the U.S. It manages the assets of the Leonard and Beryl H. Buck Trust and nearly 400 funds established by individuals, families, and businesses. The Foundation makes significant improvements in communities around the world in two ways: by spearheading initiatives for long-term, sustainable change in Marin, and by distributing grants from donor-advised funds locally, across the U.S., and around the world. Now in its 25th year, the Marin Community Foundation has assets of approximately $ 1 billion, with annual grant distributions of approximately $ 50 million.

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Smart Grid Pioneers: 50-plus Exclusive Interviews with the Trailblazers Making Smart Grid a Reality — An Exclusive Smart Grid Today Industry Report

Smart Grid Pioneers: 50-plus Exclusive Interviews with the Trailblazers Making Smart Grid a Reality — An Exclusive Smart Grid Today Industry Report

(PRWEB) October 28, 2011

The smart grid is, in many cases, still experimental. At the same time, there are deployments and certainly many pilots to learn from. Gathered in one document for the first time are over 50 detailed, one-on-one talks with industry leaders making the smart grid a reality today.

In this 100+ page report, Smart Grid Today’s experienced energy journalists interview the electric industry leaders, luminaries, gurus and field captains who are creating the new digital energy industry.

These exclusive interviews reveal insights, analyses, cautions, tips, tricks, predictions, fears, hopes and realizations about the new frontier in energy technology — and are now available in “Smart Grid Pioneers,” an exclusive industry report from Smart Grid Today – the independent journal of the digital energy industry.

No other source offers the wealth of useful knowledge and experience that Smart Grid Today works to compile every business day — and no other report offers the very best examples of that exclusive reporting over the last 12 months.

Smart Grid Today’s “Smart Grid Pioneers” special report features exclusive insight and perspective from these industry leaders making the smart grid a reality today:

     George Arnold, National Institute of Standards and Technology
     Aneesh Chopra, The White House, Office of Science and Technology Policy
     Thierry Godart, Siemens
     Erich Gunther, Smart Grid Interoperability Panel
     Reed Hundt, Coalition for Green Capital
     Chris King, EMeter
     Tom King, National Grid
     Philip Moeller, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
     Michael Peevey, California PUC
     Bob Shapard, GridWise Alliance
     Michael Assante, National Board of Information Security Examiners
     R Blake, Comverge
     Tom Bowles, New Mexico Governor’s Office
     David Brewster, EnerNOC
     Dave Curry, Demand Energy Networks
     Joel deJesus, North American Electric Reliability Corporation
     Steve Delp, Best Buy
     Larisa Dobriansky, Department of Energy
     Rick Duke, Department of Energy
     Patty Durand, Smart Grid Consumer Collaboration
     Evan Gaddis, National Electrical Manufacturers Association
     Geraldo Guimaraes, Elster
     Robert Haastert, Accenture
     Darren Highfill, UtiliSec
     Robert Ichord, US Agency for International Development
     Itai Karelic, Greenlet
     Willett Kempton, University of Delaware
     Tim Lindquist, Portus
     Colum Lundt, Bridge Energy Group
     Dan Malone, Consumers Energy
     Kristin Mayes, Arizona Corp Commission
     Brewster McCracken, Pecan Street Project
     Paul Molitor, National Electrical Manufacturers Association
     Austin Montgomery, Carnegie Mellon University
     Bill Moroney, Utilities Telecom Council
     Rafi Musher, Stax
     LeRoy Nosbaum, Itron
     Robert Powelson, Pennsylvania PUC
     Pat Romano, Coulomb Technologies
     Nachum Sadan, Amperion
     Tatsuya Shinkawa, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
     Jonathan Silver, Department of Energy
     Jeff Stewart, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
     Kazuyuki Takada, University of New Mexico
     Scott Trout, Salt River Project
     Adrian Tuck, Tendril
     Cheri Warren, National Grid
     Michael Wyde, National Institute of Health
     Tom Zarrella, SustainX

Table of contents:

     Experts sound alarm about small vendors in developing nations
     NEMA executive sees utilities, DOD partnering more on microgrids
     Project reimbursement decisions should be local: former DOE official
     National Grid expanding summits, to better engage communities
     Consumers Energy chooses SmartSynch for large AMI deployment
     DOE reaches out to grant winners overwhelmed by cyber security
     Rights activist, modernization advocate: ‘Tap genius … on front end’
     CHOPRA: Ease access to energy use data and customers will come
     NEMA prepares to release testing scheme
     With distributors aplenty, Germany among ‘slowest-moving’ nations
     Cyber security experts question NERC’s approach to standards
     Nosbaum will first draw clear roadmap to calm Itron investors
     Greenlet, Efficiency 2.0 work on broad DR pilot in Illinois
     AEP finds 2 uses for technology developed with Amperion
     Consultant exploring how to stimulate US EV market
     Former NERC executive points to needed changes
     NEDO: Nuclear uncertainty may mean more Japanese smart grid
     Big RF study relevant to meters? Check in 3 years, researcher says
     Despite Japan’s devastation, NM project scope and schedule stand
     New Elster exec: Brazil’s standards to unlock huge market
     Pecan Street’s new lab to explore interoperability, its director says
     EMeter’s King pushing White House for measurable goals
     Best Buy reveals passion for smart grid education, success
     Bridge Energy completes audit of Cobb EMC deployment
     Savings from early meters help pay for rest at Salt River Project
     As Japan assesses disaster, New Mexico project hangs on
     Professor explains how EVs will replace lots of power plant    
     Carnegie Mellon takes smart grid maturity model to next level
     University of New Mexico joins Japan-US smart grid demo project
     Outgoing UTC CEO shares parting view of electric industry
     As ‘green banks’ sprout around globe, Hundt wants them here
     Livermore puts utilities in charge of smart grid simulations
     New Pennsylvania PUC chairman brings smart-grid agenda
     Brussels-based smart grid group prepares for 1st public event
     Arnold, Gunther report on progress of smart grid standards efforts
     Gunther, Arnold put state of smart grid standards in perspective
     Demand Energy Networks to open its 1st big storage deployment
     Comverge CEO Young explains how DR is growing up
     New Coulomb CEO reveals EV market strategies, challenges
     Australia’s Portus starts EV integration pilot in Queensland
     Tendril CEO puts customer app suite Energize into context
     Amperion CEO Sadan makes case for high-speed PLC
     Loan program funds solar plant, vows more smart grid support
     ‘Whole new effort’ at schooling consumers coming this year
     GridWise chairman vows close scrutiny of upgrades in US
     California’s Peevey revels in ‘being on the cutting edge’ of smart grid
     Comverge CEO expects to hire 50, grow revenue 30% next year
     MOELLER: FERC has ‘much work’ to do on interop standards
     Arizona regulator struggles with popularity of solar rebates
     SustainX to debut new compressed-air storage in 2012
     EnerNOC president tells us why DR deserves full-LMP
     New network of governments to focus first on smart grid inventory
     2 dozen Russian energy specialists set to visit US this year
     Tendril deal motivated by importance of being touchy-feely
     Glossary
     Index

Get perspectives and insight from the industry leaders making the smart grid a reality today in over 50 detailed, one-on-one talks — now available in Smart Grid Today’s exclusive industry report, “Smart Grid Pioneers.” Download immediately at http://www.smartgridtoday.com/pioneers-report?affID=prwreport or call +1-301-769-6804 (888-471-4447 toll-free in US & Canada) to order.

About Smart Grid Today: The independent journal of the digital energy industry is published 247 times a year by Modern Markets Intelligence, Inc. The newsletter began publishing in April 2009.

Modern Markets Intelligence Inc., MMI Inc. publishes independent trade news for the evolving energy industry of the 21st century. It is located in Rockville, MD and was founded by Sam Spencer in 2009 after having created and published many trade news publications over the last three decades.

For more information, contact Season Crawford, VP of Marketing and Associate Publisher, season(at)mminews(dot)com, +1-301-769-6903 x102.

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The MedZilla Employment Report for November 2011 — Medical Industry the Real Leader in Job Creation

The MedZilla Employment Report for November 2011 — Medical Industry the Real Leader in Job Creation

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) November 15, 2011

The Bureau of Labor Statistics was finally able to report a positive change in the unemployment percentage last month. What may appear to be an insignificant number to some amounted to over 100,000 people no longer unemployed across the nation in just one month. Although government employment continued to decrease due to the winding down of hostilities in foreign countries, employment opportunities in the private industries remained on the rise. Reports indicated continued job creation in the professional services, as well as the business sector; including hospitality, health care and mining. (bls.gov, 11/04/11)

The health care industry in particular has been a shining star on the horizon with employment gains continuing in October, bringing 12,000 new positions in hospitals and private practices. This comes on the heels of tremendous growth in September which continued a year-long trend of job expansion. These continual job increases over the past 12 months total up to well over a half a million jobs added in just the Health Care Industry alone. (bls.gov, 11/04/11)

In fields across the board the average salary also continued to rise in October. It was up 0.2 percent, adding to September’s increase. These reports also show a steady positive trend over the past year, adding almost $ 1.50 to the hourly wages over October, 2010. While the increases may seem slight, the trend has been a major contribution toward increasing stability for the overall economy. (bls.gov, 11/04/11)

The outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. (CG&C, Inc.) was also proud to report that after a continuous increase over the past two years in the number of intended job cuts, October saw some welcome relief. U.S. based employers announced last month the number of planned job cuts was down 63% from September; its lowest number since June. This coupled with hiring announcements of almost 160,000 jobs as a result of their upcoming seasonal employment strategies. (challengergray.com, 11/02/11)

According to the American Medical News (AMN), the medical industry is creating more jobs than any other field. AMN reported that even though medical position ads dipped slightly in September, there were still two position openings being advertised for every one person looking. Researchers contend that this minor change has more to do with a seasonal variation, rather than an actual drop in demand. In fact, in spite of slow job growth in most fields, the Medical Industry has seen an average of 28,000 new positions being created monthly both in hospitals and private doctor’s offices across the nation. (http://www.ama-assn.org, 10/13/11)

“The aging population is increasingly becoming a more prominent consumer of medical services. There has been a push to integrate and upgrade as more advances in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals come onto the scene. Because of this, there is a significant need to not only add medical workers, but to incorporate expertly trained individuals from other industries, as well. It is one field where a diverse workforce is becoming a real necessity,” says John Burkhardt, Managing Director of MedZilla.com, one of the leading sources of healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology employment information on the internet.

According to Medzilla.com experts, staying flexible is the key to longevity. Grifco Incorporated, a private business development consulting firm based in South Florida, announced last month that it was expanding its sales improvement and commercialization business to include pharmaceutical sales, medical device and biotechnology organizations. This exciting new expansion includes commercialization strategies, business development as well as sales consulting programs. Grifco Inc. has already been providing medical sales distribution services for small medical start-ups, as well as strategy consulting for various small businesses, helping them to increase overall revenue and sales.

Thamarr Griffith, Grifco’s President as well as Senior Consultant, confirmed the expansion by emphasizing the increasing need for diversification within the medical industry. She explains, “Health care reform has left companies on their heels in fear of potential losses to stakeholders; they’ve taken the ‘wait and see’ approach. This approach may be detrimental to the industry as a whole. It is our responsibility to help health care companies continually identify ways to remain competitive without impacting the quality of service. Health care companies need to meet near term financial expectations in order to successfully service the influx of patients with newly accessible healthcare.” (http://finance.yahoo.com, 10/04/11)

Technology is not the only area of the medical community where needs are rising for specialized employees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the non-English speaking population grew 140% from 1980 to 2010. This has created a large communication gap between doctors and their patients. Some hospitals have started issuing grants in order to train bilingual individuals as well as others with linguistic skills to increase their medical vocabularies, including additional incentives to come on staff. This opens up an entirely new area of study for potential graduates in the medical field. While very few national standards exist presently, there is a growing consensus among medical administrators that the need for such regulations is becoming hard to ignore.

According to Laura Hurt, director of Volunteer Services at Columbus Regional Hospital in Arizona, “Persons who are bilingual are not necessarily interpreters. They have to know medical terminology, learn the role of the interpreter and a code of ethics.” This opens the door for new careers in education as well as interpreters in the field of bio-linguistics. (necn.com, 10/17/11)

With all of this news of growth in the health care industry, Federal officials have announced the implementation of an innovative new program designed specifically to get people thinking about lingering infrastructure issues. Policymakers intend to use the recent expansions within the medical field to finally address longstanding problems and create realistic reforms by giving the microphone back to the professionals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last month the creation of the Innovation Advisors Program. This group of selected advisors, including physicians and other health professionals from across the country, will be asked to develop new projects for the improvement of administrative and technical implementation processes specifically targeted toward their own local and regional needs. The goal is to attain overall improved population health, promote more efficient health care delivery systems and programs for lowering costs through continued development.

Del Johnston, Manager of Client Relations at MedZilla.com had this to say, “This is an exciting time to be in the health care field. The employment opportunities are expanding in almost every division. Whatever your field of expertise, there is a need to be filled in the medical industry.”

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Daily Border Bulletin – Congressional Hearing on Flawed Border Report, Boycotts on Alabama Law, Just the Facts on Fast & Furious

Friday, the House Subcommittee on Homeland Security is holding a hearing, A Call to Action: Narco-Terrorism’s Threat to the Southern U.S. Border. The subject of the hearing is a flawed report entitled Texas Border Security:A Strategic Military Assesment. NDN-NPI and others have written extensively on the serious problems with this report, below please find some of our work on this, a letter from Congressman Silvestre Reyes to Governor Perry urging him to tone down his rhetoric on the border, as well as your usual clips from your daily border bulletin.

Congressman Silvestre Reyes letter to Governor Rick Perry – In this letter Congressman Reyes urges governor Perry to tone down his rhetoric on drug violence along the southwest border.

San Antonio Examiner – Staples Manufactures Border Fears – Article pushes back on an erroneousreport on border violence noting: “USA Today recently did an analysis of border violence, drawing on ‘more than a decade of detailed crime data reported by more than 1,600 local law enforcement agencies in four states, federal crime statistics and interviews along the border from California to Texas.’

Veracity of Texas Border Report Called Into Question- Jeremy Schwartz, of the Austin American-Statesmen noted: “During a news conference after the report was released, McCaffrey raised eyebrows when he spoke of “hundreds of people murdered on our side of the frontier,” a statistic that far exceeded the 22 killings between January 2010 and May 2011 identified by the Department of Public Safety as being related to drug cartels. When asked about the number, McCaffrey pointed to statements from a Brooks County rancher, who told reporters that hundreds of bodies had been found in the county in recent years.” When asked to substantiate these findings the authors of the report deferred to a veterinarian appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry to the Texas Animal Health Commission, Michael Vickers. Vickers, on top of being a veterinarian,  chairs the Texas Border Volunteers, “a group that conducts patrols of private property and reports illegal immigration to the border patrol.”

Focus on Texas Ag Border Report Erroneous Statement: Mexico’s Drug Violence is Spilling Over Into The United States -  Despite incessant claims to the contrary there is little to no evidence of spillover violence from Mexico. NDN and The New Policy Institute has refuted such allegations many times. While the report never cites claims about spillover, it references a study by the Congressional Research Service that addresses spillover violence. Ironically, the COLGEN report blatantly ignored the main conclusion of the report it cites: “Currently, no comprehensive, publicly available data exist that can definitively answer the question of whether there has been a significant spillover of drug trafficking-related violence into the United States. {…] anecdotal reports have been mixed”

The Birmingham News -Boycotts protest Alabama’s immigration law  – Hundreds of Hispanic students were missing from classrooms in the Birmingham area on Wednesday, some Mexican restaurants were closed and workers did not show up at other businesses as Hispanics stayed home to protest the toughest immigration law in the country.

The Huffington Post – Republican Attack on Eric Holder – Let’s Stick to the Facts – “Republican congressional leaders know that this is not the first time this type of ATF gun-tracking program has gone wrong. A similar program with similar problems began under the George W. Bush administration. As CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson reported, “Operation Wide Receiver” was implemented in 2007 during the tenure of then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. A source told Attkisson that during this program, hundreds of guns “walked” across the Mexican border. “

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Focus on Texas Ag Border Report Erroneous Statement One: Mexico’s Drug Violence is Spilling Over Into The United States

In the midst of running for Lieutenant Governor, Texas Agricultural Commissioner Todd Staples released a report claiming that the border between Mexico and Texas was an out of control war zone. The report’s claims have already been confronted with skepticism. This week we will scrutinize highlight and debunk the most erroneous statements in the report.

From the Texas Ag Report: The spillover effect of increased violence in Mexico increases the violence on the U.S. side.

Despite incessant claims to the contrary there is little to no evidence of spillover violence from Mexico. NDN has refuted such allegations many times. While the report never cites claims about spillover, it references a study by the Congressional Research Service that addresses spillover violence. Ironically, the COLGEN report blatantly ignored the main conclusion of the report it cites:

“Currently, no comprehensive, publicly available data exist that can definitively answer the question of whether there has been a significant spillover of drug trafficking-related violence into the United States. {…] anecdotal reports have been mixed”

The writers themselves are hard pressed to substantiate these claims beyond anecdotal claims, Jeremy Schwartz, of the Austin American-Statesmen noted:

“During a news conference after the report was released, McCaffrey raised eyebrows when he spoke of “hundreds of people murdered on our side of the frontier,” a statistic that far exceeded the 22 killings between January 2010 and May 2011 identified by the Department of Public Safety as being related to drug cartels. When asked about the number, McCaffrey pointed to statements from a Brooks County rancher, who told reporters that hundreds of bodies had been found in the county in recent years.”

In fact  Brooks County, Tx Sheriff’s Department told the Austin Statesmen: “Most of the bodies were those of illegal immigrants crossing the brush trying to avoid the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Falfurrias and not victims of direct assaults…”

Overall violence along the Southwest Border has been in decline for some time:

When compared to their respective state averages murder rates for cities within 50 miles of the border have been lower almost every year nearly every year from 1998 to 2009. For example, during that period, California’s lowest murder rate (5.3 people per 100, 000 residents in 2009) was still higher than the highest murder rate in border cities (4.6 people per 100, 000 in 2003).

Robbery rates for cities within 50 miles of the border were lower each year compared with the state average. In Texas, from 1998 t0 2009, the robbery rate ranged from 145 to 173 per 100,000 people in the state, while the robbery rate throughout Texas’ border region never rose above 100 per 100,000.

With thanks to Dante Perez for his help with research for this report.

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