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PE Article - CENSUS: New estimates show Inland incomes falling

TERRY PIERSON/ THE PRESS ENTERPRISE STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Front page on today's (September 19, 2013) The Press Enterprise.

  CENSUS: New estimates show Inland incomes falling

"While incomes in California and the nation stabilized in 2012 after several years of decline, they continued to drop in the Inland area, new U.S. Census Bureau estimates show.

Nearly one in five Inland residents now live in poverty, the highest rate of any of the nation’s 25 largest metropolitan areas, the data reveals.

The statistics reflect a region still battered by an economic downturn that put hundreds of thousands of Inland residents out of work and threw many families out of their homes.

“They’re saying we’re out of a recession,” said Belinda Marquez, Riverside County director for community and emergency services for Catholic Charities. “Come answer my phones today and tell me we’re out of a recession.”

The organization receives about 450 calls a day in Riverside County from people seeking food, clothing or help in paying utility bills, rents or mortgages, she said. And those are only the people who can get through the often jammed phone lines.

The median household income in Riverside and San Bernardino counties fell from $59,547 a year in 2008 – adjusted for inflation – to $53,201 in 2011 to $51,695 in 2012, the Census Bureau estimates. The median is the midpoint.

The Inland Empire had the biggest drop in median incomes of all the 25 biggest metro areas."

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