Analyzing the past, present and future with U.S. Census data

• Event: 2012 IRE Conference
• Speakers: TBA
• Date/Time: Friday, June 15 at 4:35 p.m.
• Location: Salon C-D
• Audio file: Only members can listen to conference audio

From poverty to wealth, high school dropouts to graduate degrees, census data offers the best measure of your community. It also gives you basic tools of social justice reporting – ways to measure discrimination, inequality, segregation, overcrowding, diversity, walkability, assimilation and more. We’ll walk you through these measures, showing how you can use them to add depth to your stories.

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