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2010 Where We Stand Regional Report
A new report from the Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project (MPIP) at Temple University features a section on how three indicators relating to the current
economic downturn - job loss, food stamp usage and foreclosure risk - are
impacting the residents of Greater Philadelphia. This report examines these
issues for the region's state assembly and senate districts as many of our most
urgent challenges call for actions by state governments in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey.
In New Jersey all state
assembly districts but one, #8, in central Burlington County lost jobs between
2008 and 2009. During that same time period in Pennsylvania, only 14 out of the
region's 64 assembly districts saw job gains of more than one percent. These
districts are located in primarily in southern Chester county and parts of
Philadelphia. Three state assembly districts in Philadelphia - #170 (parts of Northeast
Philadelphia and Abington township), #191 (West Philadelphia and Yeadon
township) and #197(North and Northwest Philadelphia) - saw growth of more than
five percent.
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Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project
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