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DATA2GO.NYC
DATA2GO.NYC is a free, interactive tool that lets you explore over 400 indicators related to human well-being and inequality across New York City's nearly 200 neighborhoods.
Broad Recovery, Persistent Inequity: Youth Disconnection in America
Broad Recovery, Persistent Inequity presents 2022 youth disconnection rates for the United States as a whole as well as by gender, race and ethnicity, region, state, metro area, and congressional district.
A Portrait of Newark
A Portrait of Newark is an extensive study of well-being across race, place, and gender, and youth disconnection across Newark, New Jersey.
Youth Disconnection Interactive Tool
Millions of young people in the United States are neither working nor in school. Explore the latest youth disconnection data for yourself in this interactive tool.
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