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“Data is power in this day and age,” said David Williams, director of policy research at Opportunity Insights, a nonprofit group based at Harvard University. “So we’re very thankful for the partnerships we have.”

The group has used its partnerships to compile a continuous readout of the vital signs for the national and metro economies, including Chicago’s. Some information goes down to the ZIP code level. It’s all openly accessible at tracktherecovery.org, where users can view comparisons among regions. […]

(E)mployment rates in Chicago are off about 30% this year for low-income workers, vs. about 3% for those on the high end, the group’s latest data show. It also found Chicago’s small-business revenue is down 25% this year, with those in leisure and hospitality sustaining the worst declines.

Click here and tell us what you find. Also…

Explore how your community performs on the Distressed Communities Index. Users can visualize how well-being varies across zip codes, counties, and congressional districts. Click on a geography to activate the tool. Scroll below the map to dig deeper into the factors that make up the index and the demographic composition of each community.

Click here for that.

posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Oct 15, 20 @ 2:03 am

Comments

Unfortunately no real data for southern IL at Track The Recovery.
However plenty for the Distressed Communities Index. Sadly, no real surprise to me that my community rated 82.2 distressed.

Comment by DownSouth Thursday, Oct 15, 20 @ 6:56 am
Well nothing for Macon county on the first link. Almost a quarter of the adults in Macon county aren’t working according to the second. 16% below the poverty lines…yikes. Admittedly though just living here my whole life a lot of the data isn’t surprising to me. It’s sad to say but the reality is fairly visible.

Comment by IntheMiddle Thursday, Oct 15, 20 @ 8:45 am
We’re doing well on the scale with 16% unemployed. Yikes. Thanks for the link. Good web site for future tracking.

Comment by Froganon Thursday, Oct 15, 20 @ 9:35 am
Median income of 11k in Decatur, 145k in Highland Park. The rich have no idea how the rest live. Who was complaining about the fair tax again?

Comment by Jibba Thursday, Oct 15, 20 @ 9:44 am
Not surprisingly, Alexander county (so Cairo) is the worst off in the DCI. 97.1 out of a hundred, yeesh. 29% of adults not working, median household income of 34k.

I was kinda surprised that Lake County was the “worst off” of the collars. Now, they are doing FINE, they are in the “Prosperous” group, but their index score was 16, and Will was 2.8. Not sure what’s driving that, but I assume Lake’s negative change in employment (-3.9%) is a lot of it, considering most of the other collars are positive.

Comment by Perrid Thursday, Oct 15, 20 @ 10:35 am
“Data is power in this day and age,” said David Williams.

Knowledge was always power…nuthin’ new about it.

Comment by Dotnonymous Thursday, Oct 15, 20 @ 10:42 am