While Los Angeles County is the ninth most diverse among the hundred and fifty largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., it is the seventh most unequal, a report from PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) finds.
| Read more >Los Angeles ranks seventh in income inequality out of the largest 150 metro regions, according to a study by PolicyLink and USC.
Los Angeles County is among the most economically unequal large metro areas in the country, according to a study released this week by PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environment and Regional Equity.
| Read more >"Across the region, people are struggling daily for the things so many of us take for granted—safe streets, good jobs, access to health care, affordable housing and a quality education for our families," said Fred Ali, president and CEO of the Weingart Foundation. "Over the past several decades,...
| Read more >Los Angeles County ranks seventh in income inequality out of the nation’s 150 largest metro regions, according to a new report. The study from PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environment and Regional Equity, with support from the Weingart Foundation, concludes that this high rate of...
| Read more >A new report released Thursday found widening inequities in income, wealth, health and opportunity in Los Angeles County. The report was developed by PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and supported by the Weingart Foundation.
| Read more >The National Equity Atlas illustrates that air-pollution exposure in the Asian Pacific Islander population is 34 points worse than it is for the white population in Washington state. The University of Southern California Program for Environmental and Regional Equity report, The Climate Gap,...
| Read more >How to connect unemployed and under-employed workers of color to jobs in growing industries and industries with retiring baby boomers is a key question for Pittsburgh, but the region is far from alone. The Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce estimates that that by 2020 there will...
| Read more >How to connect unemployed and under-employed workers of color to jobs in growing industries and industries with retiring baby boomers is a key question for Pittsburgh, but the region is far from alone. The Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce estimates that that by 2020 there will...
| Read more >Health disparities based on race, income and gender tend to draw more notice, but variations related to where people live are prompting public health officials to use the information to craft more-targeted policies. As the data becomes more precise, experts believe interventions to combat...
| Read more >Representation matters—and that’s especially true in research. The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the University of California, Riverside, recently held a convening to draw attention to new approaches for analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data on Asian...
| Read more >The National Equity Atlas, developed by PolicyLink and the University of Southern California’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE), might be the best and most comprehensive graphic call for economic equality available today.
| Read more >The National Equity Atlas, launched almost two years ago, features racial breakdowns of numerous economic and related data, such as median hourly wages, unemployment and educational attainment, so policymakers, researchers and anyone can see clearly who is benefiting from the economy and who is...
| Read more >"When we invest in equity, we will all do better," said Amanda Navarro, director of PolicyLink. "I urge you to be all in to have real, transformative change in Cincinnati."
| Read more >For the most part, even when controlling for poverty, race is a far better indicator when it comes to determining who lives under a cloud of pollution in the United States.
| Read more >The analysis by The Atlantic comes from an impressive tool called the National Equity Atlas, produced by the nonprofit PolicyLink and the University of Southern California’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity.
| Read more >The Opportunity Project signals a shift in the Obama administration's approach to open data. Read about the thinking behind this new initiative.
| Read more >Check out The Opportunity Project, a new open data project spearheaded by the White House. It's goal is to make local and federal datasets easily sortable and available online, so developers can combine them to build new civic tech tools to improve the relationship between cities and their...
| Read more >Charlotte, North Carolina, wants to change its status as one of the worst places in the United States for poor children to have a shot at getting ahead as adults. If the city succeeds, its efforts may offer a roadmap for other major metro areas gripped by barriers such as concentrated poverty...
| Read more >In a modern-day tale of two cities, in virtually every major U.S. metropolitan area students of color are much more likely than whites to attend public schools shaped by high concentrations of poverty, an analysis of federal data has found.
| Read more >In almost all major American cities, most African American and Hispanic students attend public schools where a majority of their classmates qualify as poor or low-income, a new analysis of federal data shows.
| Read more >By 2020, 47 percent of all jobs in the Chicago region will require an associate degree or higher, according to the National Equity Atlas, produced by research group PolicyLink and the University of Southern California's Program for Environmental and Regional Equity.
| Read more >Compelling facts have always been a key ingredient in winning policy campaigns, and the rise of web technology has opened the floodgates for data that would have been out of reach to all but the most dogged advocates just 20 years ago.
| Read more >At the moment, no matter how much education people of color attain, they likely will earn less than whites with the same level of education. That’s according to the latest National Equity Atlas, created by PolicyLink and the University of Southern California’s Program for...
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