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Anonymous wrote:It’s funny you all think that private industry jobs salaries keep rising. For some, who are tall white males with connections, they become executives and ‘leadership’, others stagnate and get COL increases but passed over promotions, and for all of my relatives of color they get laid off at 50 and start taking lower paying jobs until finally they have forced retirement, despite 20 years at a company. A few become founders; we’ll see how that plays out.

I would like to say that you are wrong, but I believe you and sadly am not surprised

To be honest I wanted to spark a discussion and hear some dissent.

I’m home to Cali for holidays and everyone of my older friends, uncles and aunts in tech and business have been laid off in their 50s, some took lower status (and I think lower pay) roles or dicey positions in angel stage startups. Many have just accepted their forced retirement and blowing a ton on health insurance premiums.

The only people I know who are kickin it are law partners, owners of their own contracting business (usually gov contracts), or work at a FAANG or on Wall Street (and they come from families of ample means, so there is a question of how much family connections helped them get and maintain their jobs). My family is all first generation college grads, so we only get jobs basically cold.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the posts above. So my suspicion is right - no (comparable) data out there as it looks now to conduct such analysis.

I do appreciate the demographics factor view. What bothers me is that it is a word of the mouth which drives perceptions, and not data.

Cross-state comparisons would make it plain and simple clear which state/county is failing its kids. And which state/county provides lessons to learn from.
Foundation for the future is laid at the elementary level. Then why comparable data issue is not a federal concern?

Education is a State responsibility so each state sets its own educational policy and standards. There have been attempts to standardized educational policy across states, see the common core, but that has been actively resisted in some states and run into resistance in other places.

Kids with involved parents who are invested in their kids tend to do well in school regardless of where they live. But there are some areas that have better schools then others. It is up to you to decide if you want to move to an area with a shorter commute for you (2 hours sucks) but might not have the educational support that you desire. I don't know enough about DC Public Schools but it sure sounds like a mix bag with some great options that are harder to get into and some not so great options. Research the individual schools in the area you are moving to and decide if those work for you. Or be prepared to go private.

Or move so that your commute is cut in half, an hour, and choose a house in an area with a known strong school district.

But you are not going to find stats for comparison because each state has its own policy and own measuring tools.