03/28/2024

Without better jobs and affordable homes, people will leave O.C. and economy will be in trouble, Chapman researchers say

Orange County’s future prosperity depends on its ability to attract well-paying jobs, but its efforts are woefully inadequate when compared with those of other regions.

That was the message two Chapman University researchers delivered Friday to 200 business leaders at the Orange County Forum, a local civic group, as they laid out a panoply of grim statistics on the county’s rising poverty, high housing costs, aging demographics and falling employment in technology, manufacturing and finance.

“We need to be doing a marketing effort in a coordinated way,” said Marshall Toplansky, a data analytics expert who teaches at Chapman’s Argyros School of Business and Economics.

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