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Neighborhood Poverty In America: Using The Opportunity Atlas

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Neighborhood poverty in America may be difficult to pinpoint, but it’s certainly not impossible. The Opportunity Atlas, created by the U.S. Census Bureau and Opportunity Insights, is an interactive map that successfully identifies which neighborhoods provide children the best chance of rising out of poverty. Using anonymous data and following 20 million Americans from their …

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Check Out This Interactive New York City Street Trees Map

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New York City may have lost a lot of trees since its early founding, but there’s signs of hope in the Big Apple with the new “New York City Street Trees Mapper.” The city’s latest tree census includes, “the world’s most accurate and detailed map of a city’s street trees,” and it’s ushering in a …

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