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Poor Women Have The Highest Rates Of Unintended Pregnancy And The Lowest...

The following was originally published at ThinkProgress.org and was written by Tara Culp-Ressler. A new report from the influential think tank Brookings Institute provides clear evidence that...

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After Juvenile Hall, Youth Want A New Start

The following was originally published at YouthRadio and was written by Jacob Simas from The kNOw Youth Media. Across the country today, there are more than 61,000 young people who eat, sleep and go to...

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Women’s Foundation Uses Community Commons for Interactive Research Hub

The Women’s Foundation recently released a Status of Women in Missouri report and placed the findings on a Community Commons Hub. The Hub allows anyone to have free, easy access to a PDF version of the...

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Why it’s Important for Policymakers to Think About Death

The following was originally published at Urban Institute’s MetroTrends and was written by Nan Astone and Steven Martin  America is aging, which raises the key issue of economic balance between younger...

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Maps as a Catalyst for Change

NPR recently featured a story about a physician and a sheriff in Gainesville, Florida that used maps to improve health in a relatively forgotten area of their city. Dr. Nancy Hardt, an OB/GYN and a...

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Baltimore: A Turning Point In This Generation’s Civil Rights Movement?

This post was previously published on Youth Radio and written by Soraya Shockley When Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby charged six police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray,...

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How Housing Matters for Economic Mobility

The following was originally published at Urban Institute’s Urban Wire and was written by John McGinty and Pamela Blumenthal. Increasing income inequality and stagnant rates of economic mobility have...

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Native American Youth Advocating for Their Own

The following was originally published at Moms Rising and written by Lecia Imbery.  The odds were stacked against Shilo Valle. Born into poverty with parents who struggled with drug and alcohol...

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Data for Community Development

Chicago’s West Side can be a rough place, but Breakthrough Urban Ministries has worked for years to improve the living conditions for residents. Since 2009, they’ve been hosting Friday-night basketball...

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City With Second-Highest Veteran Population Effectively Ends Veteran...

The following was originally published at Think Progress and was written by Bryce Covert. Recently, Houston, Texas announced that it had effectively ended homelessness for its veteran population. The...

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The State of Gender Equality: Where’s the Data?

The following was originally published at devex and was written by Asma Lateef. We may assume that we will know gender equality when we see it, but how? A few countries have reached milestones on...

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Changing the Narrative Through Stories on a Map

Thaddeus Miles, Director of Public Safety for MassHousing and a founder of Hoodfit, was recently talking to a group of old friends from the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury, a similar community to where...

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Examining Disparity and Equity on the Commons

by Erin Barbaro, Assistant Director and Senior Geographic Information Systems Specialist at CARES We recently looked at children in poverty data and discussed both the limitations and the benefits of...

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Too Many Kids in U.S. Child Welfare Systems Not Living in Families

The following was originally published by The Annie E. Casey Foundation. On any given night, about 57,000 children under the care of our nation’s child welfare systems are going to bed without the care...

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How Do We Help Children Thrive Amid Instability?

The following was originally published at Urban Institute and written by Julia B. Isaacs. How can we help children thrive even during times of instability? When parents lose a job or when children have...

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Missouri’s Continuous Improvements in Child Welfare

Originally published by Missouri Kids Count and modified for Community Commons. Last month Community Commons shared Too Many Kids in U.S. Child Welfare Systems Not Living in Families by the Annie E....

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What Affects the Future Success of Poor Children?

This post was originally published at Urban Wire and was written by Caroline Ratcliffe Being poor as a child, even for only a short time, can have consequences reaching far into adulthood. The...

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Data Viz of the Week: One Map, Many Layers

I was making a presentation to my city’s Public Transportation Commission and wanted to show where Vulnerable Populations lived, where people have access to healthy food, and how important it is for...

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Overcoming Barriers to Walking

This is the second in a three part series by Jay Walljasper that discusses walking as an equity issue and how to address it. Read part one. Fifteen to 20 women in Anacostia—one of the poorest...

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Story Mapping for Health Equity: The Suburban Angle

Martine Hackett had been involved in New York City public health for many years before she moved to the Long Island suburb of Nassau County, so she knows the struggles people living in urban areas face...

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