The Bay Area Equity Atlas is made up of 21 metrics separated by topics such as income, race, geography and ancestry and it tracks changes in the nine-county region.

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In cooperation with PolicyLink, a research institute, and the University of Southern California, the Bay Area Equity Atlas has been created at https://bayareaequityatlas.org to improve the lives of the working-class and minority residents in the region. 

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May was Mental Health Awareness Month—a critical time to increase public awareness around mental health and fight stigmas that prevent so many people from accessing the services they need. Addressing this stigma is particularly important within the Black community, as African-Americans are 20 percent more likely to report “having serious psychological distress” than white people.

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Restorative justice is a practice of addressing wrongdoing by engaging both the victim and perpetrator of a crime in a structured dialogue, usually with members of their social circle and community in the same room.

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After some 30 months, the San Francisco Police Department has completed a mere 4 percent of the recommendations — 11 of 272 — the U.S. Department of Justice handed down in 2016, according to a recently released report.  

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