{"id":1689,"date":"2025-08-18T21:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentonfranklintrends.org\/newsletter\/?page_id=1689"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:27:13","slug":"aug25_short3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bentonfranklintrends.org\/newsletter\/aug25_short3\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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Urban Institute's Upward Mobility Initiative in<\/a>
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The Urban Institute's Upward Mobility Initiative is a national effort that gives local communities tools to boost long term economic well-being, racial equality, and opportunity through a foundation of clear, accurate data. Their work is done across the United States and can be found here<\/a>. Their indicators are into six categories: rewarding work, high quality education, opportunity-rich and inclusive neighborhoods, healthy environments and access to good healthcare, and responsive and just governance.<\/p>

Current data from the Initiative shows that Benton and Franklin County both deserve a pat on the back; Both rank on par with and even in front of the national median on a variety of important indicators. One indicator is air quality; Franklin County has a quality value of 57%, and Benton County has 63%- These both far outpace the national average of 44%. These values come from EPA data of hazardous materials in the air, and a higher percentage is better.<\/p>

An important fact is that the strength of the income of households represents the strength of the economy; both Benton and Franklin counties have higher household incomes than the respective national medians at the 20th, 50th, and 80th percentiles, which make up all recorded levels.<\/p>

One of the most important rights we have is the right to vote, and both Benton and Franklin counties are using that right at good rates. Franklin County has seen a voter turnout rate of 66%, and for Benton, 76%. These are close to or better than the national average of 68%. Good job, Benton and Franklin County!<\/p>

To learn more about Benton and Franklin counties, visit the Benton-Franklin Trends site here.<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Urban Institute’s Upward Mobility Initiative inBenton and Franklin Countiesby Trends Staff The Urban Institute’s Upward Mobility Initiative is a national effort that gives local communities tools to boost long term… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1689","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonfranklintrends.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonfranklintrends.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonfranklintrends.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonfranklintrends.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonfranklintrends.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bentonfranklintrends.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/bentonfranklintrends.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1689\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonfranklintrends.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}