EDUCATION REQUIRED FOR ESSENTIAL
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JOBS BY SECTOR
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Doctoral/Professional degree
In Michigan, US minorities make up roughly 19% of the population. Again, West Michigan’s essential workers closely mirrors Michigan’s demographic spread (Figure 6) , with only the Food and Agriculture sector being an outlier. Indeed, the Food and Agriculture sector is comprised of 26% U.S. minorities. COVID-19 has been an unprecedented event that has tested the creativity, resilience, and strength of our community. While many stayed home to slow the spread of the virus, many more ventured out to ensure the basic systems and infrastructures FOOD & AG HEALTHCARE/PUBLIC HEALTH LAW ENFORCEMENT, PUBLIC SAFETY, FIRST RESPONDERS OTHER COMMUNITY-BASED GOVT. OPERATIONS AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS PUBLIC WORKS TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS WATER AND WASTEWATER
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High school diploma or equivalent
No formal education
The Right Place team would like to sincerely thank the essential workers that continued to serve our West Michigan community during this challenging time. REFERENCES We used the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system to identify essential occupations. We also defined essential workers by the SOC codes The Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) and The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) have compiled. We analyzed this based on EMSI’s data.
of our society continued to function. The data on these workers is readily available for analysis, and no doubt will be the subject of more in-depth studies for quite some time to come. While data is broken down into facts, figures, and bar charts, it is important that we do not forget the most critical component to this information. This data represents people. It represents mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, and grandparents who took on considerable risk in order to maintain a system that many of us continued to benefit from in the safety of our homes.
AGE AND RACE OF ESSENTIAL WORKERS BY SECTOR AGE RACE Figure 5
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Retirement Age (55-64) Prime Working Age (25-54) Early Career (19-24)
U.S. Minorities White
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DATACONOMY: ESSENTIAL WORKERS
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