Overview:
Our long-term project goal is to provide communities with opportunities to extract data insights, develop capacity to meet their current needs and prepare for the future. Guided by the Community Capitals framework, we investigated “Political Capital” by conducting an extensive literature review to uncover policy domains that have potential to impact economic mobility. Domains we focused on: Employment, Voting, Housing & Zoning, Education, Policing, and Taxation. Within each, we collected data on policies and laws for Virginia, Iowa, and Oregon. We created an interactive dashboard that allows users to see visualizations of the data and explore by domain and state.
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Fellows:
Lara Haase
Carnegie Mellon University, MS in Public Policy and Management – Data Analytics
Interns:
Vatsala Ramanan
Smith College, Quantitative Economics
Martha Czernuszenko
The University of Texas at Austin, Information Systems & Canfield Business Honors Program
Riya Berry
UC Berkeley, Data Science & Interdisciplinary Studies
Tasfia Chowdhury
Indiana University Bloomington, Major: Political Science
Mentors:
Vicki Lancaster
Principal Scientist, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia
Cesar Montalvo
Research Associate, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia
Stakeholders:
The Gates Foundation
Land Grant Universities - Cooperative Extension Program
- Mike Lambur, Virginia Tech, Asso. Dir. of Program Dev. for VA Cooperative Extension Service
- Cassandra J. Dorius, Iowa State U., Associate Prof of Human Development and Family Studies
- Stuart Reitz, Oregon State University Professor and Director of the Malheur Experiment Station