Result 1. All children grow up in safe, stable, and nurturing environments
Indicator 1.3. % of families with children 0 to 17 experiencing employment instability
Current Value
9.9%
Definition
About the Data
This indicator includes all Census-defined families (opposite-sex married-couple families and families maintained by women and men with no spouse present) with own children 0-17 experiencing employment instability in the past year. Families experiencing employment instability are those where at least one householder is in the labor force but unemployed or no householder is in the labor force. The margin of error based on a 90-percent confidence interval is presented alongside each estimate
Why Is This Important?
Parental employment instability has been linked to poor academic outcomes, such as grade retention and lower educational attainment. Parental job loss can also lead to poor social-emotional outcomes for young children. Children whose mothers experience employment instability exhibit more problem behaviors, such as bullying or being withdrawn, and are more likely to be absent from school than children whose mothers hold stable jobs or voluntarily change jobs. (Urban Institute, 2013)
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Race/Ethnicity
| OVERALL TREND: Bexar County, 2014-2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020* | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |||||||||||||
| Experiencing Instability | 23,914 | 12.0% | 22,149 | 11.4% | 23,336 | 11.6% | 22,459 | 11.5% | 20,189 | 11.0% | 18,200 | 9.9% | 22,003 | 11.4% | 33,625 | 14.5% | 20,512 | 9.9% | 19,396 | 9.1% | 21,432 | 9.9% | |
| ±2,623 | ±1.3% | ±2,822 | ±1.4% | ±2,814 | ±1.4% | ±2,630 | ±1.3% | ±2,728 | ±1.4% | ±2,379 | ±1.2% | ±1,871 | ±0.9% | ±3,943 | ±1.6% | ±3,370 | ±1.6% | ±3,312 | ±1.5% | ±3,236 | ±1.4% | ||
| Unemployment | 10,236 | 5.1% | 8,293 | 4.3% | 9,255 | 4.6% | 7,934 | 4.1% | 7,054 | 3.8% | 7,269 | 3.9% | 8,757 | 4.5% | 15,751 | 6.8% | 7,580 | 3.7% | 8,620 | 4.1% | 9,302 | 4.3% | |
| ±1,737 | ±0.9% | ±1,828 | ±0.9% | ±1,818 | ±0.9% | ±1,634 | ±0.8% | ±1,529 | ±0.8% | ±1,626 | ±0.9% | ±833 | ±0.4% | ±2,814 | ±1.2% | ±1,849 | ±0.9% | ±2,284 | ±1.1% | ±2,239 | ±1.0% | ||
| No Labor Force Participation | 13,678 | 6.9% | 13,856 | 7.1% | 14,081 | 7.0% | 14,525 | 7.5% | 13,135 | 7.1% | 10,931 | 5.9% | 13,246 | 6.8% | 17,874 | 7.7% | 12,932 | 6.2% | 10,776 | 5.1% | 12,130 | 5.6% | |
| ±1,965 | ±1.0% | ±2,150 | ±1.1% | ±2,148 | ±1.0% | ±2,060 | ±1.1% | ±2,260 | ±1.2% | ±1,736 | ±0.91% | ±941 | ±0.5% | ±2,762 | ±1.2% | ±2,818 | ±1.3% | ±2,399 | ±1.1% | ±2,337 | ±1.0% | ||
| Families with Own Children | 198,761 | 194,732 | 201,485 | 194,866 | 184,183 | 184,657 | 193,724 | 232,013 | 207,300 | 212,090 | 217,242 | ||||||||||||
| ±6,158 | ±5,781 | ±5,486 | ±6,371 | ±6,045 | ±6,745 | ±3,340 | ±7,773 | ±7,399 | ±9,294 | ±9,404 | |||||||||||||
| Source: US Census Bureau; ACS 1-Year Estimates, Table B23007, 2014-2024.
*ACS 2020 5-year Estimate. 1-year estimates were not available for 2020 because of the impact of COVID-19 on data collection. |
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FAMILY TYPE: Bexar County, 2024
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Source: US Census Bureau; ACS 1-Year Estimates, Table B23007, 2024.
Geographic Distribution
Black Population Zips:
Hispanic Population Zips:
White Population Zips:
Story Behind the Curve
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What factors are pushing up on the data?
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What factors are pushing down on the data?
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Partners
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What Works
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Evidence-Based Practices
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Promising Practices
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No Cost/Low Cost Solutions
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Outside the Box Thinking
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Solutions and Strategies
Direct Service
- Bringing best practices and lessons learned from the Dual Generation program model serving children and parents/caregivers on San Antonio's Eastside, to implement a two-generation model in other parts of the city and county that simultaneously strengthens educational outcomes for children ages 0 to 8 while promoting financial security for adults in the home through education and employment services
Policy
- Develop and implement a policy that provides a phased-in approach to the benefits cliff, thereby helping families to plan for and manage increasing financial stability
- Connected to the benefits cliff issue, encourage a grace period or an income waiver as families begin to increase their earnings, helping to offset the immediate loss of income as they cross the new economic threshold
Funding
- Scale the dual credit model in high schools, thereby increasing pathways to the workforce for youth
Other
- To ensure working families have access to employment services, modify service delivery models so that extended hours are also offered
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