{"id":62922,"date":"2025-11-21T00:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62922\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T00:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:59:06","slug":"cal-state-bakersfields-economic-impact-reaches-nearly-500-million-regionally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62922\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal State Bakersfield&#8217;s economic impact reaches nearly $500 million regionally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A new report titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calstate.edu\/impact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Moving California Forward: The Economic Power of the CSU&#8221;<\/a> reveals that Cal State Bakersfield (CSUB) has made a significant economic impact in the San Joaquin Valley, generating nearly $500 million in industry activity.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlights that CSUB has contributed to filling more than 5,000 jobs, earning nearly $200 million in wages, and generating over $40 million in state and local tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>CSUB president Vernon B. Harper Jr. stated, &#8220;For every dollar invested in CSU Bakersfield, we produce $16 of activity. When you add in the spending of our alumni, that becomes $60. So every dollar that goes into CSU Bakersfield has an enormous impact on this community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cal State Bakersfield president Vernon B. Harper Jr. says he is proud of the university generating a substantial amount of money. (File)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53f52210-0986-4cb0-91ec-67b7e4e730b6-Sequence_EVERT_0825CSUB_0001_frame_15138.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cal State Bakersfield president Vernon B. Harper Jr. says he is proud of the university generating a substantial amount of money. (File)<\/p>\n<p>CSUB alumni have further contributed by generating $1.7 billion in industry activity and 8,100 jobs across California.<\/p>\n<p>Harper emphasized the importance of partnerships, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s really about our partnerships. And so our partnerships extend to every sector, business and non-profit sectors in this community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the report&#8217;s findings reflect an improvement due to CSUB&#8217;s rising enrollment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A new report titled &#8220;Moving California Forward: The Economic Power of the CSU&#8221; reveals that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-62922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}