California: The nation's most unequal state In California, researchers found, it really matters where you live. Residents of Silicon Valley live more than four years longer than the average American, earn nearly double the income, and have nearly triple the number of graduate degrees. Residents of Central Valley live nearly a year less than the average American, earn barely more than a poverty-line income, and nearly four in ten failed to graduate from high school.
California: The nation's most unequal state In California, researchers found, it really matters where you live. Residents of Silicon Valley live more than four years longer than the average American, earn nearly double the income, and have nearly triple the number of graduate degrees. Residents of Central Valley live nearly a year less than the average American, earn barely more than a poverty-line income, and nearly four in ten failed to graduate from high school.
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California: The nation's most unequal state
In California, researchers found, it really matters where
you live. Residents of Silicon Valley live more than four
years longer than the average American, earn nearly
double the income, and have nearly triple the number of
graduate degrees. Residents of Central Valley live nearly
a year less than the average American, earn barely more
than a poverty-line income, and nearly four in ten failed to
graduate from high school.
Source: CNN, May 6, 2015
The graph shows the demand for labor in Central Valley.
Use the graph to illustrate the labor markets for college
graduates in Silicon Valley and high school graduates in
Central Valley.
Draw a demand curve for labor in Silicon Valley and label
it.
Draw the supply curve of labor in Central Valley. Label it.
Draw the supply curve of labor in Silicon Valley. Label it
Draw the market equilibrium point in Central Valley Label
Draw the market equilibrium point in Silicon Valley. Label it
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