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Visualizations of Racial Inequity

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Client: Renew New England
Authors: AEC Staff

August 2020

On behalf of the Renew New England coalition, AEC used publicly available data to produce visualizations of racial disparities. 

There are three sets of data graphics:

1) The first set shows disparities in rates of incarceration, average income, COVID-19 cases, and unemployment across as many as five racial categories: Asian, Black, Indigenous, Latinx and white. This data is presented for each of the New England states and the U.S.

2) The second set shows Black/white disparities across as many as 23 measures (e.g. homelessness, infant mortality, educational attainment). This data is presented for Massachusetts and the total U.S.

3) Black/white unemployment for all U.S. states and the U.S. average. 

The data demonstrate that racial inequalities are pervasive across common measures of well-being like employment, incarceration, poverty status and educational attainment. These inequalities are consistent across New England and the rest of the United States. For example, across the United States today, a Black individual is 6.4 times more likely than a white individual to be incarcerated, 2.4 times more likely to have a positive COVID-19 test, and 2.2 times more likely to be unemployed.

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tags: Liz-Stanton, Tyler-Comings, Joshua-Castigliego, Bryndis-Woods, Sagal-Alisalad, Eliandro-Tavares, Myisha-Majumder, Tanya-Stasio
categories: Equity, Equity Analysis, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island
Thursday 08.13.20
Posted by Liz Stanton
 

New England Housing Costs: Rent as a Share of Income

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Authors: Bryndis Woods, Liz Stanton, PhD and Eliandro Tavares

March 2020

Researcher Bryndis Woods, Senior Economist Liz Stanton, PhD and Assistant Researcher Eliandro Tavares prepared a presentation that assesses housing costs as a share of income across the New England states. We find that, across New England, lower-income households bear a greater rent burden than higher-income households. Between 2011 and 2017, some households’ rent as a share of income has risen, as a result of falling incomes and/or rising rents that can lead to displacement.

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tags: Bryndis-Woods, Liz-Stanton, Eliandro-Tavares
categories: Equity, Equity Analysis, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island
Thursday 03.12.20
Posted by Liz Stanton