{"id":17880,"date":"2018-08-30T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=17880"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:42:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:42:53","slug":"your-money-and-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2018\/08\/your-money-and-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Money and Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I superimposed a map of homicides (denoted by pins) in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area so far in 2018 (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Interactive<\/a>) with a map of the 2016 median household income in the area (source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-data.com\/income\/income-Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city-data.com<\/a>).\u00a0 The city limits are outlined in red.\u00a0 As of this writing, there have been 75 homicides this year in the Pittsburgh area.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the map to view a <a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/pgh-crime.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">larger version<\/a> in a new tab.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/pgh-crime.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17939 size-large\" style=\"margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/pgh-crime-640x349.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/pgh-crime-640x349.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/pgh-crime-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/pgh-crime-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/pgh-crime.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Median household income in the yellow areas is $100,000.\u00a0 In the medium-to-dark-green areas, it is $150,000 or more.\u00a0 In the medium-to-dark-orange areas, it is $50,000 and less.<\/p>\n<p>It may not be news that poorer communities have higher homicide rates* but Pittsburgh&#8217;s intermingling of poor and affluent neighborhoods illustrates this pretty vividly.<\/p>\n<p>________________<\/p>\n<h5>* As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjs.gov\/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&amp;iid=5137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bureau of Justice Statistics<\/a> reported in 2014: \u201cPersons in poor households at or below the federal poverty level &#8230; had more than double the rate of violent victimization as persons in high-income households. &#8230; The overall pattern of poor persons having the highest rates of violent victimization was consistent for both whites and blacks.&#8221;<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I superimposed a map of homicides (denoted by pins) in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area so far in 2018 (source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Interactive) with a map of the 2016 median household income in the area (source: city-data.com).\u00a0 The city limits are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2018\/08\/your-money-and-your-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17880"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17947,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880\/revisions\/17947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}