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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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It’s 2015 and Tipped Wage Workers are STILL making $2.13/hour
The following was originally published at MomsRising.org and was written by Elyssa Koidin Schmier 24 years ago Paula Abdul had a #1 hit, Terminator 2 was a success at the box office, and the U.S. was...
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Many Eligible SNAP Beneficiaries Tripped up by Bureaucratic Hurdles
The following was originally posted at Urban Institute’s MetroTrends and was written by Matt Johnson. Urban Institute Senior Fellow Greg Mills reported to the House Agriculture Nutrition Subcommittee...
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Unconventional Job Fair Boosts Youth Diversity in Environmental Careers
The following was originally published at The Intertwine and was written by Thao Nguyen. It has been modified to fit The Commons audience. A Youth Mentoring Collaborative based in Portland, Oregon...
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Get Closer to Your Grocer with Salud America!
Tweetchats are an excellent way to hold a virtual conversation and share resources about a specific topic. Salud America! recently hosted the #SaludTues “Closer to My Grocer” tweetchat. Those tweets...
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Will Income Inequalities Make it Hard for Me to Raise A Family?
A Guest Voice by Camille McMannus, intern at Community Commons As a sophomore in high school, I wonder if I’ll be one of the many women in the United States paid significantly less than my male...
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Dropping Out and Clocking In
The following was originally published at Urban Institute’s Urban Wire and was written by Molly M. Scott A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about an interesting trend my team and I found while...
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How to Use the Economic Data from Community Commons
Those working to improve communities know that economics plays a big part in a person’s overall health. People living in or near poverty have difficulty accessing affordable housing, healthy food,...
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The Weight of College Finances
A Guest Voice by Alex Parks, an intern at Community Commons. Being part of a generation where parents fret over the costs of higher education, I have witnessed first hand how these pressures affect...
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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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Local May be the Way to Go With Minimum Wage Policies
The following was originally published at Urban Institute and written by Daniel Kuehn. Los Angeles recently voted to raise its minimum wage from $9 an hour to $15 by 2020, joining a growing group of...
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A Lower Homeownership Rate is the New Normal
The following was originally published at Urban Wire and was written by Laurie Goodman, Rolf Pendall, and Jun Zhu. New Urban Institute analysis reveals that the homeownership rate in the U.S., which...
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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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Creating Places of Opportunity: HUD’s New Data- and Community-Driven Approach
The following was originally published at Urban Institute and was written by Solomon Greene and Erika C. Poethig. Recently in Chicago, HUD Secretary Julián Castro and Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the...
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Why the New Overtime Proposal is a Win for Working Women
The following was originally published at momsrising.org and was written by Liz Shuler For months we’ve heard that the economy is finally moving in the right direction, except for one hitch: working...
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Data Viz of the Week: Gini Coefficient
Developed in 1912 by Corrado Gini, the Gini coefficient (or Gini index) measures income distribution among the residents of a specified geography, such as a country, a state, or a census tract. A Gini...
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A Federal Program that Can Provide Support During the Critical Early Years
The following post was originally published at MomsRising.org and was written by Elizabeth Lower-Basch. My youngest child just turned 12, but I can still remember how hard it was when my children were...
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For Children Impoverished at Least a Year, Food Stamps Provide Critical...
The following was published at Urban Wire and was written by Alexandra Tilsley. Food stamps are an important tool for easing the hardship of poor families, but they won’t break the cycle of poverty...
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Data Viz of the Week: Equity in Lending
A 2014 report from the Federal Reserve uncovered downward trends in mortgage lending to minorities, with particularly noteworthy decreases in lending to African American applicants. With recent news...
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How the Census Bureau Measures Income and Poverty
This feature was previously published on the United States Census Bureau’s Blog and was written by Victoria Velkoff Income, poverty and health insurance statistics for 2014 from the Current Population...
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