New Data Tool To Shed Light On Inequality In The Bay Area
The Bay Area Equity Atlas is made up of 21 metrics separated by topics such as income, race, geography and ancestry and it tracks changes in the nine-county region.
more >New Data Tool Released To Shed Light On Inequality In Bay Area
In cooperation with PolicyLink, a research institute, and the University of Southern California, the Bay Area Equity Atlas has been created at https://bayareaequityatlas.org to improve the lives of the working-class and minority residents in the region.
more >Taraji P. Henson Speaks To Black Female Mayors About Increasing Access To Mental Health Resources
May was Mental Health Awareness Month—a critical time to increase public awareness around mental health and fight stigmas that prevent so many people from accessing the services they need. Addressing this stigma is particularly important within the Black community, as African-Americans are 20...
more >Restorative Justice Weighed as Alternative for Addressing Domestic Violence Disputes
Restorative justice is a practice of addressing wrongdoing by engaging both the victim and perpetrator of a crime in a structured dialogue, usually with members of their social circle and community in the same room.
more >The SFPD has taken more than two years to complete 11 reforms. It has one year to complete 261 more.
After some 30 months, the San Francisco Police Department has completed a mere 4 percent of the recommendations — 11 of 272 — the U.S. Department of Justice handed down in 2016, according to a recently released report.
more >The Future of Banking: Overcoming Barriers to Financial Inclusion for Communities of Color
Systemic failures in the financial sector led to the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the Great Recession that followed. These crises disproportionately impacted low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities of color through job loss, foreclosures and an unprecedented loss of wealth. During the recession, Latinos’ household wealth declined by 66%, and African Americans’ by 53%, while White...
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