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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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Participatory Demography: Core Values
"This story is the first in an occasional series that will seek insights about life in Lower Manhattan by reviewing statistics available from the Data2Go.NYC website, created by Measure of America – a nonpartisan, non-profit project of the Brooklyn-based Social Science Research Council. This installment focuses on “core statistics” drawn from the American Human Development Index."
The Broadsheet | August 6, 2025Meet America’s typical live-at-home 20-somethings
"So-called disconnected youth who aren't employed or in school made up about 11% of the 16 to 24 age group in 2022, per a 2024 report from the research firm Measure of America."
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