Connecticut Data Blog

The article below appeared as an op-ed in the Sunday, June 5, 2011 New Haven Register, but it is applicable to cities throughout Connecticut and the United States. Please check this page for additional footnotes and detail on data sources. New Haven crime real, danger ranking is not The Register an

Executive Summary: Recent reports released over the past few months focus on the educational system in Connecticut, highlighting challenges facing the state with the largest achievement gap in the nation between low-income students and the rest of their peers. In this report, we detail income dispa

The City of New Haven invites you to attend a public information session regarding plans for a streetcar in New Haven. The City is proposing to develop a modern streetcar line stitching together three growing districts: Downtown, the Yale-New Haven Hospital Medical District, and Union Station. The

MetroTrends is the Urban Institute’s new report card on metropolitan America. The new site, still in development, compares social and economic trends in urban America and provides seasoned perspectives on what they mean for workers, families, businesses, and neighborhoods. The site is currently fea

EAT (Education, Advocacy, Teamwork) Healthy New Haven was founded in 2006 with the goal of creating a health-promoting environment for families in the greater New Haven area.   Based at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, the group is comprised of community advocates, researchers, and healt

For the first time, a new, interactive map from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation gives policy-makers and advocates a nationwide picture of continuing state efforts on key tobacco control policies. The interactive map is a wealth of information on policies related to tobacco control, cigarette tax

Your Food Environment Atlas is an online mapping tool that assembles statistics on food environment indicators and provides a spatial overview of a community’s ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so. The atlas was developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Researc

Orange Teams Launch City Health Effort A major initiative to promote chronic disease prevention by focusing on the three risk factors which play a role in more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths — tobacco use, poor diet and lack of physical activity — has kicked off with teams dressed in orange can

An interesting analysis posted on the NRDC Switchboard blog has relevance to those concerned about affordable housing issues in New Haven. As walkable neighborhoods become more desirable (which may be partly driven by increases in transportation costs), the supply of housing in “walkable” neighborho