San Francisco's Employment Disparities Hit the Bayview Hard

I wanted to see how D10 stacked up with regard to the rest of the city and to try to put into perspective the challenges that our community, our Supervisor and the City face in getting people in parts of D10 back to work.

When looking at the City's workforce numbers and comparing them to the unemployment numbers, we can plot a graph to show areas of the city where employment is unbalanced.  In the graph to the right, blue represents the percentage of the City's workforce, while red represents the percentage of the City's unemployed, broken down by ZIP code.  If there were no employment disparities, you'd see the workforce and unemployment bars for each ZIP code would be equal to one another.  However, that's not the case.

Areas with the best workforce to unemployment ratios, like the Marina, Glen Park, Castro, contrast starkly when compared with the three areas that are doing significantly worse than any others, those being the Tenderloin, Bayview, and SoMa.

Percentage of city workforce to percentage of city unemployment ratios (in order from worst to best, eg. Bayview has 2.84% of the City's workforce, and 5.99% of the City's unemployed, giving a ratio of 0.47):

ZIP workforce:unemployment 94103 0.40 94124 0.47 94102 0.51 94110 0.81 94134 0.82 94112 0.91 94108 0.94 94127 0.95 94116 0.98 94133 1.00 94107 1.00 94132 1.05 94117 1.06 94111 1.14 94109 1.19 94121 1.28 94115 1.30 94122 1.48 94118 1.67 94131 1.69 94105 1.77 94123 1.97 94114 1.98 94129 2.17

When 44.4% of the Bayview's working-age population is either unemployed or no longer part of the workforce, compared to 10.7% in the Marina, we have to ask, what can the City and our legislators do to balance this out?  What have they already done?  What jobs initiatives have been enacted to put people to work who live in the the Bayview and other areas that are in the red?  What are the real reasons behind these disparities, and are current policies making them better or worse?