May 2019 Newsletter

 
   
 
PolicyMap Mapchats
 
  FEATURED POST
 
 

Where Do Neighborhoods Provide Opportunity?

Life outcomes often depend on where someone was raised. While lower poverty rates and higher school quality play a role, opportunity is also more accessible in places where more people have stable employment and a stable family structure.

New data shows where different levels of opportunities exist, neighborhood by neighborhood.

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  CUSTOMER STORY
 
 
 

Advancing Opportunity with High Quality Childcare

Access to high-quality early learning opportunities is uneven in the City of Philadelphia, and practitioners, policy makers, lenders, and parents now have a way to identify gaps in access so that they can address them.

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Updated Data
 

Location Affordability data from HUD is updated to 2019, with modeled data on percent of income spent on housing and transportation, housing, and transportation for eight different household types. The data also includes annual cost of transportation for each household type.

Student loan debt data from TICAS is updated to 2017.

Opioid prescription rates from the CDC is updated to 2017.

Opioid use hospitalization data, including inpatient stays and emergency room visits, from HCUP are updated to 2016.

Data from Opportunity Insights’ Opportunity Atlas, including eventual adult incomes and eventual incarceration rates, is updated to 2017. You can read more about this data in the blog post mentioned above.

Infant mortality data, including infant mortality by race of mother, from the CDC is updated to 2016.

Adult mortality data, including disease-related deaths like coronary heart disease and injury deaths like motor vehicle accidents, from the CDC is updated to 2017.

Medically Underserved Areas from HRSA are updated to April 2019.

Hospital quality of care data from the CMS are updated to 2017.

Locations of hospitals and nursing homes from HRSA are updated to 2019.

Medicare beneficiary and utilization data, including total Medicare beneficiaries and hospital readmissions (among many more indicators), from the CMS is updated to 2017.

Data on Medicare patients with chronic conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease and high blood pressure, from the CMS is updated to 2017.

Subsidized household data from HUD’s Picture of Subsidized Households dataset are updated to 2018.

Residential building permit data from the Census is updated to December 2018.

Student population data, including student-teacher ratios, English language learners, students with IEPs, and students who receive free and reduced priced lunches, from the NCES is updated to 2017.

School district boundaries from the Census Bureau are updated to 2017.

Credit union locations from the NCUA is updated to 2018.

Locations of 4-year colleges and universities and community colleges from the NCES is updated to 2019.

People with professional school degrees from the Census ACS is now on PolicyMap, with data for 2013-2017.

Data on electric generating plants including their locations and electricity generated by county and state from the EIA is updated to 2019.

Area median income (AMI) limits from HUD are updated to 2019. This includes median family income as well as 30%, 50%, 60%, 80%, and 120% of AMI for families of various sizes.

Locations of retailers that accept SNAP payments from the USDA is updated to 2019.

Prime farmland area from the USDA are updated to 2019. You can read more about this subscriber dataset in our Data Directory.

Watershed boundaries from the USDA are updated to September 2018.

Unemployment, employment, and labor force data from the BLS is updated to include annual data for 2018 and monthly data for March 2019.

Locations of Business Incubators from the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA) is updated to 2019.

Rural and Underserved Counties as designated by the CFPB is updated to 2019.

Distressed Areas designated by the Appalachian Regional Commission and Delta Regional Authority are updated to 2019.

 
 
Upcoming Events
 

June 19-21, 2019

PolicyMap will be attending the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank’s Policy Summit 2019: Connecting People & Places to Opportunity in Cincinnati, Ohio

June 19-22, 2019

PolicyMap will be sponsoring and exhibiting at the National Community Development Association 50th Annual Conference in Jacksonville, Florida

June 20-25, 2019

PolicyMap will be attending the 2019 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC

July 9-10, 2019

PolicyMap will be attending the 2019 Annual Conference of the Association of Public Data Users (APDU) in Arlington, Virginia