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Community Dialog on Economic Inequality

March 24, 2017

Ridge Schuyler, Dean Community Self-Sufficiency Programs Piedmont Virginia Community College

Sponsored by Clergy and Laity United for Justice and Peace

Survival Expenses in Charlottesville

Annual Monthly Weekly Food $5,831 $486 $112 Clothing $1,056 Shelter $11,124 $927 Utilities $2,645 $220 Necessary Costs $4,131 TOTAL $24,788

Single Householder + 2 Children (1 toddler)

Working Family Expenses in Charlottesville

Annual Monthly Weekly Survival Income $24,788 $2,066 $477 Transportation $240 $20 Childcare $9,936 $828 TOTAL $34,964

Single Householder + 2 Children (1 toddler)

City of Charlottesville

Median Family Income: $70,079

GIS Analysis and Cartography Courtesy of Taylor Holt Albemarle High School Geospatial Technologies II

Albemarle County

Median Family Income: $89,456

GIS Analysis and Cartography Courtesy of Taylor Holt Albemarle High School Geospatial Technologies II

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Total Number of Families

30,427 31,352 31,090 31,371 31,844 32,352 32,741

Families making <$35,000

5,492 5,867 5,283 5,281 5,661 5,500 5,612 $0-$9,999 875 935 821 998 1,219 1,248 1,335 $10,000-$14,999 538 668 701 717 746 727 686 $15,000-$24,999 1,991 1,764 1,655 1,532 1,579 1,504 1,665 $25,000-$34,999 2,088 2,500 2,106 2,034 2,117 2,021 1,926

Percent making <$35,000

18% 19% 17% 17% 18% 17% 17%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2005-2009 2006-2010 2007-2011 2008-2012 2009-2013 2010-2014 2011-2015

Income Status of Charlottesville & Albemarle County Families Struggling in Our Economy

“Lonely islands of poverty in the midst of a vast

• cean of material

prosperity”

Change is hard.

To create “a world of constantly accelerating economic progress—not material welfare as an end in itself, but as a means to liberate the capacity

• f every human being to pursue

his talents and to pursue his hopes.”