Long 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. …

Justice 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…

64 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…

Americans with disabilities lack work, pay, and healthcare, especially in the Rust Belt — Here’s what you can do to help populations in need Subscribe to American Inequality for more stories like this and to continue to support data visualization for social change Explore the data Americans with disabilities face some of the greatest inequalities in this country. They struggle to find work, access affordable healthcare, and graduate high school or college. Americans with…

The Black unemployment rate is consistently double the White unemployment rate. Job growth is not equally distributed. 🇺🇸 In May 2022, President Biden celebrated the most recent employment data by proclaiming in a press release, “The unemployment rate did not increase in any of our 50 states.” He was right, but he wasn’t telling the full story. The US is currently experiencing historically low levels of…

The US has the highest share of single-parent homes of any country in the world. Children in these homes face greater obstacles The US has the highest share of single parent households of any country in the world. 👩‍👦‍👦 Almost 1 in 4 children live in a single parent home. That’s 19 million kids under 18 years old. America is an extreme outlier here. …

Teachers are 3x more likely to have multiple jobs compared to other workers — hometown is a big factor — If you’re interested in more stories and data visualizations like this, follow along at American Inequality. In December 2021, a hockey game in South Dakota featured teachers competing to stuff cash in their shirts for classroom supplies. …

“I missed out on their first day of school. I missed out on being able to encourage them to persevere. I missed out on being a mother. I feel like I was robbed of that opportunity because they were babies. And when I came home, they had babies. …

Low-income communities are most likely to live near superfund sites, leading to high health risks Superfund sites are located in low-income neighborhoods and they have terrible health impacts on the children and families that live nearby. …