Bristol County place to be for future earning power

BRISTOL COUNTY is the place to grow up in Rhode Island if you're poor because every year a poor child spends there adds about $1,000 to his or her household income at age 26, according to a New York Times article. / COURTESY NEW YORK TIMES
BRISTOL COUNTY is the place to grow up in Rhode Island if you're poor because every year a poor child spends there adds about $1,000 to his or her household income at age 26, according to a New York Times article. / COURTESY NEW YORK TIMES

PROVIDENCE – Bristol County is the place to grow up in Rhode Island in terms of earning power if you are poor, according to a New York Times article that studied Rhode Island counties.
The article states that location “matters – enormously.”
“Not only that, the younger you are when you move to Bristol, the better you will do on average,” it states.
It states that every year a poor child spends in Bristol County adds about $100 to his or her household income at age 26 compared with a childhood spent in the average American county. That adds up to approximately $1,900, or 7 percent, more in income at age 26.
Poor children in Providence County will earn $990, or 4 percent, more at age 26. In Newport County, they would make $800, or 3 percent, more.
If a poor child grows up in Kent County instead of an average place, he or she will make $500, or 2 percent, more, while the same child would make $340, or 1 percent, more in Washington County.

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