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...
View ArticleAfter 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...
View ArticleWomen’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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleMaps 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...
View ArticleBaltimore: 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,...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleNative 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...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleCity 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleChanging 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...
View ArticleExamining 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...
View ArticleToo 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleMissouri’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....
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleOvercoming 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...
View ArticleStory 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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