Oct 30Why Smoking Rates are Rising AgainLife expectancies aredeclining as cigarette sales increased for the first time in 20 years 🚨If you want more stories like this a week earlier and access to the underlying data, take a look at American Inequality🚨 In 2020, for the first time in two decades, cigarette sales increased. The state…Public Health9 min readPublic Health9 min read
Oct 4Why I use data to evaluate inequalityI’m doing something a bit different with this article — taking a bit of a birds eye view on why I build all of the data visualizations and maps for each article. My goal is to helps others see how the bare facts behind an issue in a way that…Data Science6 min readData Science6 min read
Aug 30Lost in Translation: Overcoming Language Barriers for OpportunityLet’s examine the impact of Low-English Proficiency on employment, education, and voting rights. Explore the interactive map “Una Nación bajo Dios, entera, con libertad y justicia para todos.” How can a nation promote liberty and justice for all if it cannot communicate with its citizens? The number of Americans who…Spanish6 min readSpanish6 min read
Jul 31Why owning a home in America is so hardAnd what we can do to make it easier to supply, apply, and buy homes FOLLOW ALONG AT AMERICAN INEQUALITY FOR MORE STORIES LIKE THIS INTERESTING ON THE WEB 📻 I went on live radio with NPR in Minnesota to discuss life expectancy — Spotify 🧑🍼 HuffPo highlighted our childcare and inequality work — HuffPo 🗽 My interview with the Bronx Times on how we…Homeownership7 min readHomeownership7 min read
Jul 12Without health insurance, poverty is just a medical bill awayRemember the Affordable Care Act? We still have a long way to go American Inequality has now hit +7,000 email subscribers! 🎉Send to a friend and tell them to join our rapidly growing community 🚀 INTERESTING ON THE WEB Great free class from On Data & Design on how to…Healthcare9 min readHealthcare9 min read
Apr 20Childcare costs skyrocket in the Northeast and WestNew data highlights inequalities for communities struggling with affordable childcare For more stories like this, follow along at American Inequality INTERESTING ON THE WEB 🎉 I wrote an op-ed in TIME this week on the 5 solutions states can adopt to improve life expectancy — TIME 👀 Paul Krugman and David Wallace-Wells both cited our work in their NYTimes op-ed’s…Childcare8 min readChildcare8 min read
Mar 20Natural disasters cause havoc for low-income AmericansHalf of all the billion-dollar natural disasters have occurred in the last decade, and some communities get it much worse ➡️ For more stories like this, subscribe to our Substack. INTERESTING ON THE WEB 🌉 Where has all the funding for the Infrastructure Bill gone so far? Awesome visualization — Data to Decisions 🐣 Emily Oster’s ParentData newsletter has been doing some fantastic original analysis and presenting data on the…Natural Disasters8 min readNatural Disasters8 min read
Feb 22Economic opportunity may just be a subway ride awayLong commutes show structural inequality in cities, and bad health outcomes During President Biden’s State of the Union address, he spoke a lot about rebuilding our highways and railroads to improve the infrastructure of America. But if we don’t address the inequalities in the ways we use those roads and…Healthcare6 min readHealthcare6 min read
Jan 17Low-income Americans are blocked from fair legal representationJustice delayed is just denied INTERESTING ON THE WEB FEMA has revamped their flood insurance pricing, a huge problem as we discussed 🌊 The Harvard Kennedy School launched the Reimagining the Economy project and it’s incredible 💭 Reuter’s visualizes the swings in control that each political party has had during…Legal8 min readLegal8 min read
Jan 6A struggling economy will exacerbate debt inequality in America64 million Americans have delinquent debt, but some communities have much larger challenges than others INTERESTING ON THE WEB 🛠 Our new tool for Opportunity Mapping to search how your county stacks up when comparing different social metrics 📖 The Pudding did an incredible storytelling piece using Raj Chetty’s data…Debt7 min readDebt7 min read
