What’s in store for the Inland Empire’s future workforce?

By Manfred Keil and Mark Schniepp | Inland Empire Economic Partnership

Short-term economic problems for the nation, the state, and the Inland Empire have been discussed in our previous articles. Here we want to focus on the longer term prospects for our region. Think of this as Inland Empire 2045. We pick that year because someone born today would be 20 by then, and would be deciding whether to be in the area’s labor force. Some would have started to work at an earlier age and others would be in college.

The question we want to address: If you have a young child, what sort of work environment would you want to create for them in our area, the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario Metropolitan Statistical Area?

Roughly 20% of residents in the Inland Empire commute daily to their jobs today,