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Persistent Poverty in America

My Twitter feed brought a new report to my attention this week. It's titled "Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected" and was written by Kenan Fikri who I've been following for a while.  (I'll use Persistent Poverty to refer to this report in the rest of this article.) The map below was what caught my attention.  It shows areas...

Wed Feb 14, 2024 21:24
Explore STEM Visualizations for Stakeholder Conversations

Today I explored a robust data visualization site created by Argonne Labs in partnership with Northwestern University’s Digital Youth Network. The home page of the website is shown below.  Click on any of the green circles and you'll open data tables for nine communities on Chicago’s south side, cataloguing STEM assets from Kindergarten to career. ...

Sat Dec 2, 2023 14:38
Maptitude tools using GIS for regional economic planning

Below is a map view showing three cities in Oregon, using a mapping product from Maptitude. This map is part of an article on LinkedIn titled "How to use GIS to look at changes in employment patterns".    In the introduction the writer says "This article explores how to use GIS (geographic information software) in local or regional economics. Many...

Sat Dec 2, 2023 14:38
Pain and suffering around the world

Today I'm listening to news about the brutal terrorist attack in Israel, following the continuing Russian attack in Ukraine, and looking at headlines about kids killing kids in the USA.   It's overwhelming.A few years ago I posted a map showing disaster areas throughout the world.  Today I looked for updated information and found this detailed map...

Sun Oct 8, 2023 20:17
Where are non-school youth development programs most needed?

The Heartland Alliance released its latest data tables last week.  I wonder who in Chicago is using this information to understand where youth need extra help in the non-school hours, based on levels of poverty in their community area?  Here's an example of the data available on their site Below is the same table, along with maps that I created from...

Mon Jun 26, 2023 03:09
Who is doing research about youth program availability?

 If you've read articles on this blog, going back to 2008, you'll see that the Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) have been trying to build a comprehensive, map-based, understanding of what non-school, volunteer-based tutor/mentor and learning programs exist in Chicago and where more are needed.  Over...

Thu Jun 8, 2023 21:43

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