Dear Atlas users,

Our latest analyses indicate that people living and working in the Bay Area continue to face economic challenges, including growing income polarization and financial stress related to job loss or pay cuts. As the effects of the pandemic and long-standing inequities continue to unfold across the region, the Bay Area Equity Atlas remains committed to partnering with local advocates and policy leaders to ensure that equity is at the forefront of our region’s recovery. Explore the latest Atlas research and updates:

Nearly Half of All Residents In the Bay Area Are Either Low Income or Very Low Income

The follow-up analysis to our 2020 examination of the racial and ethnic makeup of low- and very low-income residents in the Bay Area reveals that 3.5 million people in the region — 46 percent of the area’s total population — are either very low-income or low-income. We also found that there are region-wide racial disparities: Black and Latinx residents make up a larger share of very low-income residents compared to white and Asian or Pacific Islander residents. Our analysis also indicates that there are county-level differences: Compared to the other Bay Area counties, San Francisco has a markedly higher rate of residents with lower incomes (54 percent). Learn more about the crisis of income polarization in the nine-county region by delving into these and other findings.

Bay Area Residents Continue to Face Significant Economic Challenges

Building off data from the Bay Area Recovery Tracker, the latest analysis in our series exploring how the region’s residents are faring post-Covid illustrates how racial and economic inequities are fueling an uneven recovery for communities of color and people with low incomes. We found that six in 10 low-income adults and almost half of adults of color are still unable to cover their usual expenses, including buying food and groceries; paying housing and utility bills; and keeping up with monthly car payments and other transportation costs. The gap between lower income and higher income households experiencing a loss of employment income also continues to widen: There is a 23 percentage-point gap between lower income and higher income households reporting a loss of employment income, up significantly from an eight percentage-point gap in April 2021. Other issues, including tech industry layoffs and persistent occupational segregation, have increased job instability and economic uncertainty for workers in the region. For more insights, explore the full analysis.

Atlas on the Road

1. The Atlas team continues to meet with organizations, officials, advocates, and communities across the region to share timely data and actionable solutions to support their efforts to advance equity. On January 24, Ryan Fukumori presented during the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors' annual budget retreat, in which he shared insights about the state of equity in the county. This week, he will conduct a similar presentation to the East County Resource Coalition. On February 7, Ryan and Simone Robbennolt will participate in a pre-event panel discussion during NeighborWorks America’s 2023 symposium, "Advancing Equity for People of Color: Local Solutions for Housing Stability.”

Atlas in the News

This month, the San Francisco Chronicle cited findings from our profile of the Bay Area’s AAPI population in a story about the fastest-growing languages in the region. The East Bay Times mentioned the Atlas and our insights in a piece about efforts to address renter displacement as the housing development boom continues in Mountain View, California. Fred Blackwell, CEO of the San Francisco Foundation, also cited several Atlas analyses in an op-ed published in the San Francisco Examiner. For more, check out the complete list of our media coverage.

Thank you,

Bay Area Equity Atlas team

Dear Atlas users,

As 2022 comes to an end, we're celebrating what has been both a productive and transformative year for our team and partners. This year, we produced more than 30 data products, including reports, fact sheets, equity profiles, dashboards, and analyses, that have helped communities and advocates across the nation win on equity. Here are a few more updates from the Atlas to close out the year:

Applications for the National Equity Atlas Fellowship Are Now Open!

Are you a mid-career grassroots leader of color who’s interested in learning how to leverage data to bolster your organization’s campaigns? We’re now accepting applications for the second cohort of National Equity Atlas Fellows. This year-long program offers selected participants hands-on training in data analysis and visualization, opportunities to engage with data and policy experts, access to a peer network of other community-based leaders from across the United States, and dedicated support in developing original data projects. The deadline for applications is January 21, 2023, and the fellowship will begin in March 2023. To learn more about the program and how to apply, visit nationalequityatlas.org/lab/fellowship-cohort2.

Ensuring Workers in the Miami Metropolitan Area Are Prepared for the Jobs of Tomorrow

South Florida’s economic rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic has been turbulent, driven by persistent barriers to quality employment prospects for residents of color and an elevated risk of automation-driven job displacement. Our latest workforce equity report — produced in partnership with Florida International University — examines what these upheavals and ongoing racial economic exclusion are costing the three-county region. Our in-depth analysis of disaggregated equity indicators and labor market dynamics found that Black workers and Hispanic women in the Miami metropolitan region have the lowest median wages at $16 per hour, while white men earn the highest median wages at $27 per hour — a 69 percent pay gap. The research also indicates that eliminating racial gaps in wages and employment for working-age people could boost South Florida's economy by $122 billion a year. Download the full report, and explore other regional analyses in our Advancing Workforce Equity project.

Join Our Team

The USC Equity Research Institute invites applicants to apply for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in support of the research and activities of the Atlas. The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to contribute to building data infrastructure for the equity movement, conduct quantitative and qualitative research, and participate in engagements with community advocates and policymakers. Please help us spread the word!

Thanks for Being a Part of Our Growing Network

We appreciate your continued support and interest in our work. Please stay tuned for new research, updated data, and more opportunities to connect with us in 2023! In the meantime, if you’ve found any of our data, research, or resources valuable this year, we want to hear from you! Share your thoughts and stories with us at info@nationalequityatlas.org.


- The National Equity Atlas Team at PolicyLink and the USC Equity Research Institute (ERI)

Dear Atlas users,

In this season of gratitude and giving, we want to thank you for supporting the National Equity Atlas and our work. We’re gearing up to release updated data and new research that help further advance racial and economic equity. To increase our capacity and better support the leaders and communities we partner with, we’ve expanded our team. Here is more on this exciting news and other updates:

Atlas Team Members Who Joined in 2022 (from top left to bottom right): Alex Balcazar, Bita Minaravesh, Gabriel Charles Tyler, Jennifer Tran, Ryan Fukumori, Seleeke Flingai, Simone Robbennolt, and Vanessa Garcia.

You might have already noticed, but there have been many new members added to the Atlas team this year. Please help us in officially welcoming them: Alex Balcazar, Bita Minaravesh, Gabriel Charles Tyler, Jennifer Tran, Ryan Fukumori, Seleeke Flingai, Simone Robbennolt, and Vanessa Garcia. We’re thrilled to have these eight amazing leaders support and boost our change-making work!

ICYMI: A Blueprint for Workforce Equity in Metro Detroit

The latest report in our Advancing Workforce Equity project spells out how long-standing racial gaps in income and employment have impacted Metro Detroit’s workforce and economy: People of color make up a large share of the region’s workforce. Despite this growth and the increasing economic prosperity in the region, Black and Latinx workers in particular aren’t benefiting equitably. Our research also shows that eliminating these racial gaps would provide the region with an estimated $28 billion in economic activity per year. The report and its findings have been covered in Crain’s Detroit Business, Axios Detroit, and Bridge Michigan.

New State Profiles Illuminate the Stark Racial Disparities in Eviction across the Nation

Eviction cases are rising across the United States as Covid-era renter protections continue to end, putting millions of people at-risk of experiencing homelessness. The Eviction Research Network — a collaborative research project for social good based at UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project — has released several state profiles that illustrate eviction patterns and disparities before and during the pandemic. The analyses underscore the persistence of racial disparities in eviction, with Black renters consistently facing the greatest threat of eviction in localities across the nation. Thus far, maps and profiles have been released for Delaware, Indiana, Minnesota, and Oregon.

Do You Have an Atlas Story to Share?

If you’ve found any of our data, research, or resources valuable, we want to hear from you! Share your thoughts and stories with us at info@nationalequityatlas.org.

- The National Equity Atlas Team at PolicyLink and the USC Equity Research Institute (ERI)

Dear Atlas users,

From climate change to Covid-19, low-income people and communities of color have been the most impacted by crises — and recovery efforts that exclude them deepen inequities. Despite some progress, many Bay Area residents have yet to fully recover. The Bay Area Equity Atlas is committed to partnering with communities and advocates to ensure that the region's recovery creates a different future — one where prosperity is broadly shared, and the region’s working-class people and people of color have good jobs, dignified and rising standards of living, and can prosper. Explore the latest Atlas research and updates:

Tracking the Bay Area's Progress Toward an Equitable Recovery

We developed a new tool — Bay Area Recovery Tracker — to monitor the nine-county region’s progress toward an inclusive and equitable recovery. The tracker, which draws from a mix of data sources, provides a real-time snapshot of how communities are faring across 16 unique indicators, ranging from access to remote work, households behind on rent, and public school enrollment rates. It features disaggregated data across three focus areas (economic security and prosperity, housing justice, and healthy communities of opportunity) and three levels (regional, county, and zip code). To learn more about this new tool and post-Covid recovery in the Bay Area, read this overview and explore regional trends.

Mapping Patterns of Segregation Across the Bay Area

In case you missed it: we released an analysis on racial and economic segregation across the Bay Area. The maps featured within the analysis show where the largest racial, geographic, and income divides exist across the region. Our research underscores that deep and persistent pockets of both white wealth and Black, Latinx, and Asian American poverty persist in the Bay Area, despite the region’s diversity and progressivism. To provide deeper analysis, we created city-level maps for Alameda, Berkeley, Concord, and Oakland, which can inform the process of updating local housing elements.

In Focus: Are People Leaving the Bay Area?

Abbie Langston, the director of equitable economy at PolicyLink, joined other experts on KQED Newsroom to weigh in on shifting population trends in the Bay Area. During the conversation, she called attention to the racial and economic inequities that undergird the shifts, particularly the skyrocketing cost of housing that has disproportionately harmed Black people living in the region. Watch a recording of the segment. To learn more about how the region's racial and ethnic demographics have changed since 2000, click here.

Register Now: Atlas Training Session

The Atlas contains 23 equity indicators for 272 geographies across the nine-county region, along with policy strategies, case studies, and resources. On October 18, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. PT, the San Francisco Foundation will host a training session for those interested in learning how to use the Atlas. Jennifer Tran and Simone Robbenolt of PolicyLink will share an overview of the Atlas, how people are using it, and how it can support Bay Area advocates in advancing equity. Trainees will also hear from Irene Rojas-Carroll of Bay Rising about how the organization has used data from the Atlas to inform and bolster its efforts. Register for the session.

Atlas in the News

Our data and insights have informed pieces in several news outlets, including San Francisco Chronicle, East Bay Times, Bay City News, and KQED. For more, check out the complete list of our media coverage.

Thank you,

Bay Area Equity Atlas team

Dear Atlas users,

While top-line measures indicate that the US economy has largely bounced back from the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of workers and families across the nation are still reeling. In Detroit, Michigan, local leaders are working across sectors to co-create solutions that advance equity for workers and ensure that families can thrive. The National Equity Atlas remains committed to providing actionable insights and support to those working to ensure racial equity is at the forefront of recovery efforts. Here are more updates:

New Research Reveals that Black Workers Have Borne the Brunt of Metro Detroit’s Inequitable Labor Market and Uneven Economic Growth

In the years following the Great Recession, Metro Detroit showed promise of a strong economic rebound. But our report, produced in partnership with the Detroit Area Workforce Funders Collaborative, illustrates how long-standing racial gaps in income and employment have impacted the region’s workforce and economy: The region has a shortfall of good jobs that do not require a college degree and only 29 percent of the region’s workers hold good jobs. And despite the growing diversity of the region's workforce, workers of color remain crowded in lower paying and lower opportunity occupational groups, while white workers are overrepresented in many higher paying professions. Our research indicates that eliminating racial inequities in employment and wages could boost Detroit’s regional economy by about $28 billion a year. Download the full report — and explore the other regional analyses in our Advancing Workforce Equity project.

Prop 22 Undermines the Pay, Benefits, and Autonomy of California Rideshare Drivers

In their campaign for Prop 22, rideshare companies promised drivers good pay, benefits, and flexibility. But our analysis of real driver data — developed in partnership with Rideshare Drivers United (RDU) — reveals that the law has given these companies a free pass to deny their drivers critical rights and protections. As a result, the average net earnings of rideshare drivers in California are just $6.20 per hour under Prop 22. If rideshare companies were forced to respect drivers’ labor rights, they would earn an average of three times more per hour. Explore more findings in the report.

Atlas in the News

Over the last month, our study with RDU received significant media coverage, which was featured in MarketWatch, WIRED, Tech Times, Mission Local. For more, explore the archive of our news coverage.

- The National Equity Atlas Team at PolicyLink and the USC Equity Research Institute (ERI)
 

Dear Atlas users,

At the end of June, one of the critical statewide Covid-19 eviction protections for low-income tenants expired, leaving many of those who applied to the state’s rent relief program at risk of eviction and homelessness. And although some Bay Area cities and counties have tenant protections that remain in effect, many families across the region continue to face hardships as a result of the ongoing pandemic and long-standing inequities. The Bay Area Equity Atlas and our community partners continue to support efforts to keep people in their homes and create long-term stability for renters. Explore our latest research and updates:

The State Has Denied Rental Assistance to More Than 26,000 Bay Area Households

California’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program promised to cover 100 percent of the rent debt of low-income renters who fell behind due to the pandemic. How have Bay Area applicants fared? Our analysis of the statewide program’s performance reveals that more than 89,000 Bay Area households applied. Of them, 26,362 households have been denied rental assistance as of July 13. They, along with the more than 8,000 households who are still waiting for their applications to be reviewed, continue to face the threat of eviction and homelessness. To learn more, dive into the findings and policy recommendations.

One in 10 Bay Area Neighborhoods are Segregated Areas of White Wealth

Despite the Bay Area’s diversity and progressivism, racial and economic segregation persists across the region. Our maps detailing the levels of racial and economic segregation across the region’s 1,572 census tracts provide an in-depth look at the issue: there are six times as many neighborhoods of concentrated white wealth than there are neighborhoods of concentrated Black, Latinx, or AAPI poverty. These highly segregated neighborhoods are located in seven of the region’s nine counties, with over half of them being located in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Contra Costa Counties. Policymakers and advocates can use these maps and the underlying data to help disrupt regional segregation and guide local decision-making. Check out the full analysis.

New Analysis Reveals Persistent Racial and Gender Gaps in Access to Employment Opportunities

We recently added four new measures of employment to the Atlas: labor force participation, employment-to-population ratio, joblessness, and unemployment. In a new analysis, we highlight trends across these measures, from 2000 to 2019. The data shows that Native American and Black working-age adults in the Bay Area are most likely to be locked out of job opportunities and have higher rates of joblessness and unemployment. And women of color — particularly Native American, Black, and Latinx women — also face barriers to fully participating in the region’s economy.

We’re Hiring

Our team is actively recruiting for a Senior Associate to lead Atlas research engagements with community partners, including the development of reports, analyses, and local equity data tools; contribute research and data support to the Bay Area Equity Atlas; and support the further development of the Atlas tool. The ideal candidate is passionate about producing data and research that is relevant and actionable for those working on the front lines to advance racial economic equity. Please help us spread the word!

Atlas in the News

Our data and insights have informed stories about housing issues in the Bay Area in several outlets, including the SF Chronicle, SF Gate, and Mercury News. For more, check out the complete list of our coverage.

Atlas Data in Action

The Bay Area’s housing crisis has been growing for decades, driven by a persistent lack of affordable homes and uneven wage growth. To address this crisis and support housing planning efforts, the Partnership for the Bay's Future and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative have released the first phase of the Housing Readiness Report. The new tool helps users track, monitor, and get involved in their city’s housing plans and policies. Powered by several sources, including the Bay Area Atlas and the National Equity Atlas, the resource features the latest data on racial diversity, rental housing burden, affordable housing production, and housing policies. Interested in delving deeper into your community’s housing needs and getting trained on how to use this new tool? Join the training session at 10 a.m. PT on August 23.

Thank you,

Bay Area Equity Atlas team

Dear Atlas users,

In just seven days, California’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program will stop accepting new applications, and the Covid protections that had previously barred landlords from filing eviction notices on the basis of unpaid rent will end. As evidenced by our new analysis, the combined loss of resources and protections will expose families and communities to the cascading harms of eviction and homelessness. Through our data tools, research, and partnerships with grassroots organizations, the Atlas team is proud to support efforts to ensure an equitable recovery. Here are more updates:

New Analysis of California’s Rent Relief Program Underscores the Urgent Need for Policy Action

Our new analysis of California’s statewide rent relief program — released in partnership with Housing NOW! — reveals that more than 366,000 of the 534,666 applicants are still waiting for assistance. At the current rate of approvals, it would take until Thanksgiving for them all to receive a decision on their applications. These findings underscore that California needs permanent policy solutions, funding, and infrastructure to support the renters hardest hit by the pandemic. In addition to the report, we released a dashboard with real-time, in-depth data for counties, cities, and zip codes.

Meet the Inaugural Cohort of National Equity Atlas Fellows

We are proud to announce the inaugural cohort of the National Equity Atlas Fellowship. This new program provides intensive, hands-on data training and support to grassroots leaders of color working to advance racial and economic equity. The 12 visionary leaders we’ve selected come from a broad range of backgrounds and represent community-based organizations from across the country. Learn more about the fellows and their work at nationalequityatlas.org/fellowship.

Equity Data for Six Southern States

In partnership with E Pluribus Unum, we produced a series of data snapshots to support a cohort of Southern state legislators working to advance racial and economic equity. In addition to key Atlas indicators on demographics, economic vitality, readiness, connectedness, and the economic benefits of equity, the snapshots also include customized indicators related to priority equity issues in each of the states. You can download data decks for Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

Did You Hear? We’re Expanding Our Team!

We are looking for a dynamic Senior Associate to join our team. The person who fills this position will lead research engagements with community partners for the Bay Area Equity Atlas, including the development of reports, analyses, and local equity data tools. They will contribute research and data support to the National Equity Atlas and support the further development of the Atlas tool. The ideal candidate is passionate about producing data and research that is relevant and actionable for those working on the front lines to advance racial and economic equity. This position will remain open until it’s filled. Please help us spread the word!

In the News

The Atlas received broad media coverage this month, anchored by our latest analysis, which was covered by KGET, KABC, KPBS, Mercury News, KQED, and Los Angeles Times. For more, explore the archive of our news coverage.

- The National Equity Atlas team at PolicyLink and the USC Equity Research Institute (ERI)
 

Dear Atlas users,

It’s been a while since our last update, so we’re excited to reconnect with you. This year has kept our team busy thus far: We’ve refreshed our indicator data, published new analyses, and presented to Bay Area partners. And that’s just the beginning of what we have in store for 2022. Explore our latest updates:  

New Analysis: Where are Renters with Low Incomes Living in the Bay Area?

The Bay Area is home to more than 385,000 renters with incomes below $50,000 per year. In our latest analysis, Ángel Mendiola Ross maps where they live and offers insights on how this data can inform state and local housing affordability efforts. The map shows that nearly half of the low-income renters in the nine-county region live in communities without robust tenant protections. Given the ongoing pandemic and the housing affordability crisis, many of these renters have lingering rent debt that places them in further financial distress and at greater risk of eviction. As cities and counties are determining how to spend their American Rescue Plan fiscal recovery allocations, understanding where the greatest need exists can help them equitably target protections and resources for renters.

Showcasing the Diversity of the Bay Area’s Asian and Pacific Islander Population

More than two million people (27 percent) living in the Bay Area identify as Asian American or Pacific Islander (API). Using the 2019 American Community Survey data we recently added to the Atlas, we created a profile of the Bay Area’s API population to illustrate its diversity and to map where more than a dozen Asian sub-communities live across the nine-county region. Our analysis shows that the Bay Area’s API community is among its fastest-growing groups. From 2000 to 2019, the API population in the region grew by 57 percent. The Bay Area’s API communities also reflect a wealth of diversity: The Chinese population is the largest API ancestry group (30 percent of all APIs), followed by the Indian and Filipinx (each 16 percent), Vietnamese (8 percent), Korean (4 percent), Japanese (3 percent), and Taiwanese populations (2 percent). Having a deeper understanding of the differences within this broad racial and ethnic group can help foster the development of more equitable and targeted policy solutions.

In Case You Missed It: Check Out Our Dashboard on Black Prosperity in the Bay Area

Are Black people living in the Bay Area prospering? We recently worked with Tableau expert Chantilly Jaggernauth to produce a regional dashboard that presents indicators of equity for the Bay Area’s Black population, including economic and political inclusion, education, and justice. This focused examination of racial disparities within the region illuminates the urgent need for solutions that address the root of inequities in the Bay Area. The dashboard is part of the Racial Equity Data Lab, which uses Tableau software and Atlas data to help people and communities tell their own stories through data visualization.

Register Now: KQED Live Event on Reparations for Black People in California

California is the first state in the nation to establish a task force to research and develop proposals on how to make reparations for Black Americans. But what are we really talking about when discussing reparations? And why now? Join Sarah Treuhaft tomorrow at 7 pm PT/10 pm ET for a KQED-hosted event exploring how the push to get reparations for Black Californians is taking shape. Register here to be part of the conversation. 

Join the National Equity Atlas Team 

The National Equity Atlas team is actively recruiting for a Senior Associate to lead Atlas research engagements with community partners, including the development of reports, analyses, and local equity data tools; contribute research and data support to the Bay Area Equity Atlas, and support the further development of the Atlas tool. The ideal candidate is passionate about producing data and research that is relevant and actionable for those working on the front lines to advance racial economic equity. Please help us spread the word!

Thank you,

Bay Area Equity Atlas team

Dear Atlas users,

Throughout 2021, the Bay Area Equity Atlas team continued to equip local community leaders working to address structural racism and the inequitable impacts of the pandemic with actionable insights and analyses, and 50,000 users turned to the Bay Area Equity Atlas to access equity data and policy tools – double the number of users in 2020. The new federal administration, with its pathbreaking day-one executive order on racial equity and the historic American Rescue Plan, offered renewed hope and resources for an equitable recovery. But delivering on equity will take continued advocacy for transformative, race-conscious policies and investments, and we are gearing up to power those efforts with relevant and deeply disaggregated data. Here are some highlights from the year.

Powering Advocacy for Eviction Protections and Rent Relief

As the second year of the pandemic unfolded, we were proud to support efforts across the region to protect vulnerable Covid-impacted renter households.

• We worked closely with local advocates fighting for eviction protections to produce resources for their campaigns, including fact sheets on eviction risk and rent debt for California, the Bay Area, and unincorporated Alameda County in partnership with the Raise the Roof Coalition, People’s Alliance of San Mateo County, North Bay Organizing Project, and Housing NOW.
• We partnered with Right to the City Alliance to build a regularly updated rent debt dashboard providing timely, local data (including for the Bay Area) on the extent of renter debt, the characteristics of households affected by it, and the distribution of rent relief.
• With Housing NOW and BARHII, we surveyed 177 workers conducting intake and outreach for California’s emergency rental assistance programs to help policymakers, service providers, and intermediaries understand the challenges renters face in accessing relief, from technological and language barriers to fear of landlord retaliation. Tenant-serving organizations have successfully advocated for the state to address some of the barriers and program flaws highlighted in our report.

Illuminating Progress – But Continued Inequities – in Local Political Representation

The Bay Area is one of the most diverse regions in the nation, but people of color still face significant barriers to accessing and exercising political power. This year’s data on the diversity of high-level elected officials in the Bay Area revealed that while the share of Black and Latinx electeds increased after the November 2021 election, our political leaders are still not representative of the region’s rich diversity: People of color make up 60 percent of the region’s population but just 34 percent of top elected officials. With Bay Rising, we hosted a panel discussion exploring the challenges candidates face and pathways for increasing political representation, where Clarissa Doutherd and Shanthi Gonzales shared their experiences as women of color running for Oakland Unified School District board. The San Francisco Chronicle, SF Gate, San Francisco Public Press, and the Daily Journal reported on our analysis.

Updating and Expanding Our Indicators

Our metrics are now updated to include the most recent data available (2019, in most cases), along with key insights from this data. In September we added Homeownership as our 22nd indicator, displaying homeownership rates by race, gender, nativity, ancestry, and geography between 2000 and 2019. We also released updated data and trends for California’s Tribal Nations to make it easy for users to access key insights for this population, as Native Americans are a relatively small share of the Bay Area population (less than ½ percent), and data availability varies across the region’s counties and cities.

Launching the Racial Equity Data Lab

As part of the launch of the Racial Equity Data Lab, we worked with Tableau expert Chantilly Jaggernauth of Lovelytics to produce “How is the Black population doing in the Bay Area?”, a regional dashboard that presents indicators of economic and political inclusion, education, and justice for the Bay Area’s Black population. We found that median wages for Black women are nearly $20,000 less than those of their counterparts. The Lab is a new feature that helps you tell your community’s equity story using custom dashboards and displays powered by Tableau software and Atlas data.

Atlas In the News and On the Road

This year, our data and analyses informed 52 print and digital news articles in outlets including the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, NPR, Mercury News and SFGate ( full list here). We presented to diverse audiences, including the Commonwealth Club of California, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Tableau User Group and Berkeley Opportunity Lab.

Join Our Team!

USC Equity Research Institute is hiring a one-year postdoctoral position to provide data analysis support to the Bay Area and National Equity Atlas team. The fellow will help the team design, organize, and conduct advanced quantitative analyses producing academic articles as well as popular reports. Please send experienced candidates our way!

Thank you,

Bay Area Equity Atlas team