AMERICAN INEQUALITY DATA PORTAL - USE THE MAPS
https://www.americaninequality.io/maps
This site is a tremendous resource for those who want to understand where poverty and equality are concentrated in America and to view some suggestions for "a path forward".  

"THE ARCHITECTURE OF SEGREGATION," - POVERTY IN CITIES - 2015 REPORT
https://tcf.org/content/report/architecture-of-segregation/
"The landscape of poverty has grown in American cities, leaving more low-income people living in an expanding number of largely poor neighborhoods." That’s according to a report titled "The Architecture of Segregation," published this month by Paul Jargowsky, a fellow at the nonprofit Century Foundation.

10 MOST SEGREGATED US CITIES
https://www.salon.com/2011/03/29/most_segregated_cities/
Read the article and view the slide show. These are cities that should be working with the Tutor/Mentor Connection to help create mentor rich programs that bridge poverty and segregation that divides us in big city America.

500 CITIES PROJECT - PUBLIC HEALTH DATA FROM CDC AND RW JOHNSON
https://www.cdcfoundation.org/programs/places-project
From the web site: "To ensure the health of America’s neighborhoods and communities, it is vital to understand the scope of the nation's most pressing health challenges. The CDC Foundation is partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to release a first-of-its-kind data analysis for the 500 largest American cities, and the census tracts within cities, to identify, analyze and report data for a select number of chronic disease measures."  Click into the interactive map section of the site. 

AMERICAN INEQUALITY DATA VISUALIZATION RESOURCE ON SUBSTACK.COM
https://americaninequality.substack.com/
From the website: "At American Inequality, we are focused on  using data visualizations and mapping to highlight America's regional divides.  Every article dives into an inequality topic that gets less coverage than it should. Stories are woven into every article, because data is nothing without the people behind it." Solutions are included with each article. 

A MAPPING RESOURCE FROM OJJDP
https://www.ncjrs.gov/html/ojjdp/news_at_glance/218233/topstory.html
The national offices of Juvenile Justice launched a web site called, SMART system, in 2005, which is a Geographic Information System and Web-based mapping application. 

A NEW (2018) DATA TOOL CHRONICLES THE SHIFTING MURDER RATES OF AMERICAN CITIES
https://www.thetrace.org/2018/08/american-violence-murder-rates-u-s-cities/
This article describes a new data tool, created by American Violence shows homicide data from  82 of America's 100 largest cities.  It also describes "A research brief drawing on the site’s data spells out how the ways in which crime rates are framed can shape or distort our understanding of them." You'll want to read the article then click the links.

AMERICAN VIOLENCE - MAKES DATA ON VIOLENCE ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLIC 
click here
From the web site: "The project is designed as a public resource that will make data on violence accessible to public officials, journalists, researchers, and the public at large, allowing users to visualize and analyze trends in violence at multiple geographic levels (neighborhoods and cities) and over different time frames (month to month, year to year, decade to decade). The first version of the site, launched in 2018) provides city-level figures on murder rates in more than 80 of the largest 100 U.S. cities. The second version of the site, which will be launched in the coming months, will feature neighborhood-level figures on violent crime in 30-50 cities with available data."

ANTI VIOLENCE STRATEGY FOR CHICAGO - 2019 ARTICLE - SEE MAPS
click here
This link points to an article in  Crains Chicago Business , that describes anti violence strategies being introduced in Chicago. The article includes maps showing poverty, unemployment and demographic information with homicides from 2013-2017 shown as overlay.

ARE US CITIES GETTING MORE OR LESS VIOLENT (2018)
https://res.cloudinary.com/gates/image/upload/ocrlhs4r9v9kxd0ltaab
This is a "research brief drawing on the  American Violence   site’s data spells out how the ways in which crime rates are framed can shape or distort our understanding of them. The paper analyzes urban murder rates in the United States during three periods. Over the long-term, between 1991 and the present, rates plunged dramatically. Between 2014 and the present, there was a significant uptick in violence, but murders never came close to the “record levels” described by Trump and his political allies." 

ATLAS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOOPMENT GOALS - 2020 - FROM WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
https://datatopics.worldbank.org/sdgatlas/
This site is a huge data resource for understanding the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, by region of the world, and by country. 

CHICAGO COMMUNITY AREA HARDSHIP INDEX 2016-2020
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/da5601c3e0924e5ab3ee07ade9954f7a
This interactive map, created by the UIC Great Cities Institute, shows areas of Chicago with highest levels of economic hardship, based on six indicators, including unemployment , education, per capita income, poverty, crowded housing and dependency. 

CHICAGO COMMUNITY AREA HARDSHIP INDEX - 2019-2023
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b57d7f755d3b4d219dac3ade2f387e9c
This is an update from the UIC Great Cities report issued in 2020 (see link above).  The interactive map shows areas with highest level of economic hardship, based on six indicators which include unemployment rate, education, per capita income, poverty rate, crowded housing, dependency. 

CHICAGO CRIME MAPPING RESOURCE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-crime-in-chicago-20171114-storygallery.html
Use this Chicago Tribune resource to understand crime levels in different community areas. 

CHICAGO HEALTH ATLAS - USE MAPS TO UNDERSTAND ISSUES
https://chicagohealthatlas.org/
From the web site: "The City Tech Collaborative and the Chicago Department of Public Health created the Chicago Health Atlas so that you can review, explore and compare health-related data over time and across communities. In addition, the Chicago Health Atlas provides a place for residents to see our progress implementing Healthy Chicago 2.0, the citywide plan to improve health equity."

CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS 2015 - RESOURCE FROM CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST
https://www.cct.org/about/partnerships_initiatives/chicago-neighborhoods-2015/
From the web site: "Chicago Neighborhoods 2015: Assets, Plans and Trends is a research project by The Chicago Community Trust that focuses on Chicago’s built environment. This includes infrastructure, natural features and physical and institutional assets that define and influence the city's musculature. The project provides data and other pertinent contextual information for every section of the city. It identifies major recent investments, maps assets and synthesizes ideas from Chicago's many excellent local and citywide plans." 

CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT CRIME MAPPING RESOURCE
https://gis.chicagopolice.org/
From the web site:  "The Chicago Police Department developed this web application to provide residents of the City of Chicago with a tool to assist them in problem-solving and combating crime and disorder in their neighborhoods. It is based upon the CLEAR (Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting) system developed by the Department for use by its police officers.
This web application enables you to search the Chicago Police Department's database of reported crime. You will be able to see maps, graphs, and tables of reported crime. The database contains 90 days of information which you can access in blocks of up to 14 days. Data is refreshed daily. However, the most recent information is back-dated 7 days from today's date."

CHICAGO POVERTY DATA AND MAPS - 2015
http://wire.cjc.net/data-sets/poverty-thresholds/
This page of the Workforce Information and Resources (WIRE) web site presents official poverty measures for different areas in Illinois, as well as alternative ways of understanding poverty.

CHICAGO'S MURDER PROBLEM - 5-2016 NY TIMES ANALYSIS
click here
This New York Times article provides an in-depth comparison of Chicago to New York City, including maps and graphs.  Add to your reading.

CHILD POVERTY IN US - 2015 INTERACTIVE MAP
https://www.childrensdefense.org/ending-child-poverty-now/
This Children's Defense Fund web site includes an interactive map with child poverty data for each state in the USA.  

COUNTY HEALTH RANKINGS IN US - INTERACTIVE MAPS
https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/illinois/2019/overview
From the web site: "The annual County Health Rankings measure vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of air and water, income inequality, and teen births in nearly every county in America. The annual Rankings provide a revealing snapshot of how health is influenced by where we live, learn, work and play. They provide a starting point for change in communities."

COUNTY POPULATION TRENDS, 2020 TO 2021, AND RACE/ETHNICITY WITH THE LARGEST CHANGE
https://eig.org/working-age-white-americans-exited-large-cities/
Interactive map on Economic Innovation Group website shows changes in population for different parts of the USA.  Check out the Issue Areas and Analysis parts of the website. 

CRIME IN CHICAGOLAND - FEATURE OF CHICAGO TRIBUNE (2015)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-crime-in-chicago-20171114-storygallery.html
The Chicago Tribune has created an extensive library of information and interactive platform to help anyone understand crime patterns in different parts of the Chicago region. Great resource for activists.

CRIME MAPPING & ANALYSIS NEWS
http://crimemapping.info/article/role-of-mapping-technology-for-locating-missing-children/
From the web site: "The Police Foundation has been exploring the use of open data as a means to improve transparency and accountability and to encourage and support innovation in policing. To pursue these goals, a Public Safety Open Data Portal will be launched to highlight what local agencies are doing in the area of open data and to offer the public and professional users the ability to see, visualize, and analyze the data in one location."

CRIME MAPPING AND ANALYSIS
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/maps-how-mapping-helps-reduce-crime-and-improve-public-safety
This web site uses GIS maps to illustrate where criminal activity takes place in different parts of the US. The MAPS program supports research into spatial aspects of crime, spatial data analysis, mapping and analysis for evaluating programs and policy, as well as development of mapping, data sharing, and spatial analysis tools. MAPS also sponsors conferences and workshops and publishes reports.

DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES INDEX - INTERACTIVE MAP
https://eig.org/dci
From the web site: "How did the Great Recession from 2007-2011 and subsequent recovery affect the health and trajectories of American communities? And how have the rewards of a long national expansion been distributed in local terms across different places and populations?

To find out, EIG used its Distressed Communities Index (DCI) to compare two distinct time periods: 2007-2011 and 2012-2016. The DCI combines seven complementary metrics into a single measure of economic well-being, resulting in a clear snapshot of the economic and social state of the U.S. zip codes, counties, cities, and congressional districts. Places are sorted into quintiles based on their performance on the index: Prosperous, comfortable, mid-tier, at risk, and distressed."

EQUITY MAP BOOK - LOS ANGELES
https://www.angelcityadvisors.com/mapbook
From the website: The Equity Map Book is a collection of 79 maps, in pdf format, that visualize injustice and exclusion across the Los Angeles County region.  Since the racial injustice protests of 2020, we have been collecting various current County-wide data sets – some public, others not – and mapping them across our region.  These maps are for you to use, cite, and ACT upon."

EXPLORING THE NATION OF POVERTY (2015) - FLOWING DATA WEB SITE
http://labratrevenge.com/nation-of-poverty/
Poverty is growing in US cities. View story and visualizations on this site to build your understanding.

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF POVERTY - POVERTY MAPS
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/povmap
From the web site: "The Global Poverty Mapping Project seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live. Additionally, the project aims to assist policy makers, development agencies, and the poor themselves in designing interventions to reduce poverty."

GROWTH AND SPREAD OF CONCENTRATION POVERTY IN USA 2000-2012
https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/the-growth-and-spread-of-concentrated-poverty-2000-to-2008-2012/#/M10420
Included in this report is the statement "The nation’s 100 largest metro areas are home to 70 percent of all distressed census tracts, along with similar proportions of the total population and poor residents living in such neighborhoods."  The resources of this web site are intended to help youth serving organizations grow in these high poverty neighborhoods.

GUN VIOLENCE DISPROPORTIONATELY AND OVERWHELMINGLY HURTS COMMUNITIES OF COLOR - 2022 FACT SHEET
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/gun-violence-disproportionately-and-overwhelmingly-hurts-communities-of-color/
This article shows that "the lack of investments in communities of color, coupled with weak gun laws, has resulted in devastatingly high rates of gun violence for Black and brown people".  Here's a 2023 article in Chicago SunTimes that "compares risk in some Chicago neighborhoods to risks U.S. troops faced in Iraq, Afghanistan war zones". https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/2/3/23583842/violence-garfield-park-chicago-neighborhoods-iraq-afghanistan-wars-60624-west-side

GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE - COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
From the website: "Gun Violence Archive (GVA) was formed in 2013 to provide free online public access to accurate information about gun-related violence in the United States. GVA collects data from over 7,5000 law enforcement, media, government and commercial resources daily."  The site has an extensive collection of charts and maps. 

HOW DOES WHERE WE LIVE AFFECT HOW LONG WE LIVE?
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/interactives/whereyouliveaffectshowlongyoulive.html?
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation resource includes a variety of interactive maps that focus on health disparities. In this link you can enter  your address and see the life expectancy for where you live and compare it to your city, county, state and overall USA.  This is one of several resources on this page.

HOW MAPS CAN HELP FIGHT RACISM AND INEQUALITY
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/03/02/maps-help-fight-racism-inequality
This 2021 article shows how Black activist have used maps over the past 100 years to focus on poverty, racism and equality and to motivate state and Federal government legislation. 

ILLUSTRATING CHICAGO'S CRIME - RICH DATA SITE
http://heyjackass.com/
This site provides a wealth of illustrated data about crime in Chicago. Use it in  your own civic engagement and efforts to reduce this problem. 

IMPACT OF PLACE ON LIFE CHANCES - RAJ CHETTY PAPER
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2015/06/02/these-maps-from-raj-chetty-show-that-where-children-grow-up-has-a-major-impact-on-their-lifetime-earnings/
These maps from Raj Chetty show that where children grow up has a major impact on their lifetime earnings.  View this article and video on the Brookings.edu site and share with your network. 

INDIANA GOV MAP SHOWS METH LABS IN STATE
https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/indianas-interactive-map-plots-meth-lab-data.html
This site maps data showing meth labs in Indiana. It's an example of how state government can share data that citizens can use to help solve problems.

INEQUALITY OF U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOLS, MAPPED
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-14/mapping-the-concentration-of-poverty-in-u-s-public-schools
From the site: "the Urban Institute has taken a deeper dive by mapping the data by county, illuminating how poverty and race are distributed in public schools across the country."  Visit the site. Look at the maps. Share the data.

JUSTICE ATLAS OF SENTENCING & CORRECTIONS
https://nicic.gov/justice-atlas-sentencing-and-corrections-0
From the web site: "The Justice Atlas of Sentencing and Corrections is an online tool for mapping the residential distribution of people involved in the criminal justice system. It uses aggregated address data to map the flow of people being removed to prison, reentering communities from prison, and the standing population concentrations of people under parole or probation supervision."

JUVENILE JUSTICE MAPPING SITE
http://www.jjgps.org/
From the web site: "Juvenile Justice GPS (Geography, Policy, Practice, & Statistics) is a project to develop an online repository providing state policy makers and system stakeholders with a clear understanding of the juvenile justice landscape in the states.

The site layers the most relevant national and state level statistics with information on state laws and practice and charts juvenile justice system change. In a landscape that is highly decentralized and ever-shifting, JJGPS provides an invaluable resource for those wanting to improve the juvenile justice system. We hope that the information will be used as a platform for inspiring change and finding solutions that have been applied in other places."

LOS ANGELES CRIME MAPPING WEB SITE
http://maps.latimes.com/crime/
From the web site:  "The LA Times’ database of Los Angeles County crime reports. Crime L.A. delivers the power of neighborhood crime analysis to your computer. Using data from the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Crime L.A. creates maps and reports for the hundreds of cities and neighborhoods covered by these agencies."

LOST IN PLACE - POVERTY GROWING IN US CITIES
https://cityobservatory.org/lost-in-place/
This story starts by saying "Lost in Place: Why the persistence and spread of concentrated poverty–not gentrification–is our biggest urban challenge." Read more. Look at the maps.

MAP SHOWING SEGREGATION IN CHICAGO
http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?chicagodots
This Racial Dot Map helps understand some of our social and economic challenges better. 

MAP VISUALIZES COMPLEX CONFLICT IN CONGO
https://www.businessinsider.com/map-congo-conflict-2015-12
This article demonstrates the potential of maps to help understand complex problems in the US, and the World.

MAPPING CRIME DATA IN CHICAGO AT NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL
http://archive.lisc-chicago.org/news/2668
This article describes how civic tech developers are creating  computer applications that are enabling neighborhood residents to play a greater role in improving their communities. Link in the story points to new CrimeAround.us site.

MAPPING CRIME: PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE (PDF)
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/178919.pdf
This extensive 206 page guide introduces the science of crime mapping to police officers, crime analysts, and other people interested in visualizing crime data through the medium of maps.

MAPPING DECLINE: ST. LOUIS AND THE FATE OF THE AMERICAN CITY
http://mappingdecline.lib.uiowa.edu/map/
Description of web site: "University of Iowa historian Colin Gordon is the author of Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City: a book that investigates how Saint Louis changed during the twentieth century. In his research, Gordon utilized archival records as well as GIS techniques. He also created this series of four interactive maps as a companion to this book. Each of these maps illustrates a different phenomenon that shaped Saint Louis: white flight; laws and policies that deliberately created racial segregation; municipal zoning laws; and laws and policies that fit under the umbrella of "urban renewal." Each of these four maps includes a timeline accompanied by a short explanation, which allows visitors to learn how certain policies and laws impacted demographic trends." Similar practices took place in most other US cities.

MAPPING INEQUALITY - UNDERSTANDING HOUSING POLICY & INEQUALITY
click here
From the web site: "Mapping Inequality updates the study of New Deal America, the federal government, housing, and inequality for the twenty-first century. It offers unprecedented online access to the national collection of "security maps" and area descriptions produced between 1935 and 1940 by one of the New Deal's most important agencies, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation or HOLC (pronounced "holk")."

MAPPING GUN VIOLENCE: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN PLACE AND GUN HOMICIDES IN FOUR CITIES
https://www.brookings.edu/2022/04/21/mapping-gun-violence-a-closer-look-at-the-intersection-between-place-and-gun-homicides-in-four-cities/
This 2022 Brookings.edu looks at gun violence in Chicago, Baltimore, Kansas City and Nashville, using maps to show the connection g between poverty, racial segregation, systemic disinvestment and high rates of gun violence.  

MAPPING KEY DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOECONOMIC DATA - NEW YORK CITY
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/urbanresearchmaps
From the web site: "The Center for Urban Research prepared a paper on behalf of the NYC Districting Commission discussing how "communities of interest" might be considered, measured, and understood in the context of drawing new City Council lines in the 2013 districting process. In this report The Center for Urban Research has mapped and analyzed hundreds of measures that might be taken to indicate some aspect of community of interest."

MAPPING LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES IN THE US - NEW RESOURCE -2022
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/decision-support/mapping-low-income-communities-in-the-us/
This article describes a new layer of information added to the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, to be used in mapping and policy efforts. 

MILLION NEIGHBORHOODS MAPPING INITIATIVE
https://millionneighborhoods.org/#2/6.05/58.5
From the web site: "The "Million Neighborhoods" project by a team at the University of Chicago aims to map the whole world - eventually - and become a tool for better city planning as mayors decide which areas most need sewers, roads and other basics. The interactive, online map was created with an open-source database that lets any and all volunteers add the location of roads and buildings in unmapped places."

MAPPING POLICE VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
This site has been collecting and reporting information about the number of people killed by police since 2013.  The data is intended to provide greater transparency and accountability for police departments as part of the ongoing work to end police violence in America.

MORE RECOMMENDED READING ON RACE / POVERTY - LIST ON DROP BOX
click  here
In 2017 I started building a list of articles about the 45th President of the US and root causes of racism, poverty and inequality. Take a look.

MURDER RATES HIGHER IN RED STATES FOR PAST 20 YEARS
https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-two-decade-red-state-murder-problem
This article, titled "The Two-Decade Red State Murder Problem" goes into detail to show that the "murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump  has exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in every year from 2000 to 2020."  This is not the story the media are reporting.  Take a look. 


NATIONAL VIOLENT DEATH REPORTING SYSTEM
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/datasources/nvdrs/
From the web site: "The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) provides states and communities with a clearer understanding of violent deaths to guide local decisions about efforts to prevent violence and track progress over time. NVDRS is the only state-based surveillance (reporting) system that pools data on violent deaths from multiple sources into a usable, anonymous database. These sources include state and local medical examiner, coroner, law enforcement, toxicology, and vital statistics records."

OPPORTUNITY INDEX - A MAP-BASED TOOL FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS
https://opportunityindex.org/#4.00/40.00/-97.00/
From the web site: "The Opportunity Index focuses on the conditions present in different communities and is designed to connect economic, academic, civic and other factors together to help identify concrete solutions to lagging conditions for opportunity and economic mobility. From preschool enrollment to income inequality, from volunteerism to access to healthy food, expanding opportunity depends on the intersection of multiple factors."  Visit the web site and learn to use this in creating your own stories about where and why extra help is needed in communities across the USA.

POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT DATA FOR CHICAGO
http://wire.cjc.net/data-sets/poverty-thresholds/
This web site provides a listing of poverty figures for different geographic levels in the state of Illinois (state, county, city, community area, etc.), and additional tools for understanding poverty in Illinois.

RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE CMAP (CHICAGO) REGION - 2015 REPORT
https://www.cmap.illinois.gov/updates/all/-/asset_publisher/UIMfSLnFfMB6/content/race-and-ethnicity-in-the-cmap-region
From the web site: "On December 3, 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau released its 2010-2014 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates. The ACS collects information such as ancestry, educational attainment, income, employment, and housing characteristics and makes this data available at multiple geographic levels, including municipality and township.  This release of the ACS marks the first time that users and analysts are able to compare two non-overlapping 5-year ACS datasets (2005-2009 and 2010-2014), and the first time that many of the region's smaller communities will be able to see this change for their jurisdictions. This Policy Update is part of a series that uses the most recent ACS data to examine broad trends in the CMAP region."

RELATIONAL POVERTY NETWORK -
http://depts.washington.edu/relpov/
From the web site: "The Relational Poverty Network convenes a community of scholars, working within and beyond academia, to develop conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, and pedagogies for the study of relational poverty. Launched at a historical moment of dramatic income inequality and enforced austerity in the global North, the RPN thinks across geographical boundaries to foster a transnational and comparative approach to poverty research.  In doing so, it pays attention to new global geographies of development, new forms of regulating poverty, and analyses from those often marginalized by poverty debates.  Building on a long tradition of critical work on poverty, it shifts from thinking about ‘the poor and poor others’ to thinking about relationships of power and privilege." 

RICH BLOCKS POOR BLOCKS - MAPPING POVERTY AND AFFLUENCE - DATA BLOG
https://richblockspoorblocks.com/
Use the interactive map on this site to look at the different levels of affluence in different parts of the Chicago region and the USA.  This link points to a blog which uses maps view in its stories.

SOCIAL IMPACT RESEARCH CENTER OF HEARTLAND ALLIANCE - POVERTY DATA
https://www.heartlandalliance.org/illinois-poverty-data-dashboards/
From the web site: "The Social IMPACT Research Center continually tracks poverty-related indicators for the nation and for a variety of geographies in Illinois and across the Midwest."

THE COST OF GUN VIOLENCE IN WEST ATHENS WESTMONT, CALIFORNIA
https://costofviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/West-Athens-Wesmont.pdf
This report by the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, https://nicjr.org/, shows the cost of gun violence in West Athens - Westmont, California.  

THE GROWTH AND SPREAD OF CONCENTRATED POVERTY, 2000 TO 2008-2012
https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/the-growth-and-spread-of-concentrated-poverty-2000-to-2008-2012/#/M10420
This 2014 Brookings.edu report has interactive maps and loads of data that can be used to help build an understanding of where poverty is most concentrated, and where Tutor/Mentor Connection strategies could be adopted.

THE LONG REACH OF AMERICAN CORRECTIONS - 2009 PEW REPORT
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2009/03/02/one-in-31-the-long-reach-of-american-corrections
From the web site: "One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections examines the scale and cost of prison, jail, probation and parole in each of the 50 states, and provides a blueprint for states to cut both crime and spending by reallocating prison expenses to fund stronger supervision of the the pdf report and look at how maps are used. 

THE OTHER PROBLEM WITH CHICAGO'S SEGREGATION: CONCENTRATED WEALTH
https://www.metroplanning.org/news/7147/The-other-problem-with-Chicagos-segregation-Concentrated-wealth
This article on the Metropolitan Chicago Planning Council web site includes maps that show the extreme segregation of race and class in Chicago.  

UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITIES OF DEEP DISADVANTAGE - U MICHIGAN POVERTY SOLUTIONS
https://poverty.umich.edu/projects/understanding-communities-of-deep-disadvantage/
From the website: "What does disadvantage look like in America? And where are the nation’s most disadvantaged communities? With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton University explored this question and developed an Index of Deep Disadvantage to identify and better understand America’s most disadvantaged communities."  The site includes an interactive map that shows an "Index of Disadvantage" for every county in the US.

WEALTH INEQUALITY IN CHICAGO - 222 URBAN INSTITUTE INTERACTIVE MAP
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/chicago-neighborhoods-have-stark-differences-economic-opportunity?
This map shows the richest areas of Cook County Illinois (including Chicago) and the poorest.  

WEALTH INEQUALITY IN AMERICA - 2017 BROOKINGS.EDU ARTICLE
https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/
This 2017 article includes nine charts that help explain wealth-inequality in America. 

WORLDMAPPER PROJECT CARTOGRAMS SHOW POVERTY GAP
https://worldmapper.org/
This site uses cartograms to create a better understanding of the issues of population or mortality. These maps show the gaps between rich and poor in an easy-to-understand way.

YOUTH DISCONNECTION IN AMERICA TODAY - 2018 REPORT
https://measureofamerica.org/DYinteractive/
From the web site: "This site is a visualization of the information contained in Measure of America's latest report, More Than a Million Reasons for Hope. Explore here and then read the full report.  Measure of America provides easy-to-use yet methodologically sound tools for understanding the distribution of well-being and opportunity in America and stimulating fact-based dialogue about issues we all care about: health, education, and living standards." This link points to a page with interactive maps that enable you to zoom into local areas of the USA.

ZEROING IN ON PLACE AND RACE - MAPPING DISCONNECTED YOUTH
https://measureofamerica.org/youth-disconnection-2015/
From the web site: "Zeroing In on Place and Race is an in-depth look at how disconnected youth are faring in America’s cities, with data included on disconnected youth by state, congressional district, county, gender, and by race and ethnicity. Disconnected youth are teenagers and young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither working nor in school."  Browse the site and take a look at the maps.