Inequality

  • Living in a poor neighborhood changes everything about your life

    [Excerpt, from Vox.com, "Living in a poor neighborhood changes everything about your life," by Alvin Chang, June 6, 2016.]

    June 07, 2016

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    Urban Connecticut's structural strain

    BY ARI ANISFELD Urban centers are the engines of Connecticut's economy. They are job-centers, entertainment-providers, and home to 18 percent of Connecticut's population. But they also face the largest gaps when it comes to paying the bill. In 2015, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s New England Public Policy Center analyzed the fiscal affairs of every Connecticut town and found wide disparities. 

    April 15, 2016

  • Racially Concentrated Areas of Wealth and Poverty DataHaven

    Concentrated Wealth and Poverty in Connecticut's Neighborhoods

    [Note: The interactive map that was on this page is no longer active. Please view our Community Index Reports and Data Dashboard for more recent maps] Wealth and poverty are highly concentrated in Connecticut — more so than in many other large metropolitan areas. And often, those neighborhoods are racially and economically segregated from each other. For example, 27 percent of top-earning households live in neighborhoods that are predominantly white and wealthy. In other large metropolitan areas, it’s just 10 percent.

    August 31, 2015

  • Racially Concentrated Areas of Poverty Connecticut Data by DataHaven

    Connecticut Data Map: Racially and Economically Segregated Areas, 2012

    [Note: This map is no longer active. Please view our Community Index Reports and Data Dashboard for more recent maps] Connecticut not only has the highest per capita income in the nation and ties New York in income disparity, its pockets of wealth and poverty are more highly concentrated than in many other large metropolitan areas.

    August 26, 2015

  • Data show Connecticut remains segregated, but work being done to lessen it

    [Excerpt] "Connecticut not only has the highest per capita income in the nation and ties New York in income disparity, its pockets of wealth and poverty are more highly concentrated than in many other large metropolitan areas. That was one of the findings of a study by Mark Abraham and Mary Buchanan, of DataHaven in New Haven, whose mission is to help policy-makers by compiling and interpreting public data.

    July 04, 2015

  • Income Inequality Connecticut Neighborhoods DataHaven

    Rising Neighborhood Income Inequality in Connecticut

    From 1980 to 2013, the percentage of Connecticut residents living in neighborhoods of concentrated wealth or poverty grew by 30 percent, according to a new analysis from DataHaven.  On the map below, click "Visible Layers" to view data from each decade. Meanwhile, the percentage of residents living in middle-income neighborhoods shrunk 7 percent.

    June 17, 2015

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