Publicly Available Social Justice Data

There are thousands of federal, state, and local government sites that link the public to their data. Like much of the internet, it is easy to get lost trying to find data useful to your research unless you know where to go. This class is designed to introduce participants to commonly used measures of social justice through publicly available data sites. We will begin by exploring data sites that focus on social justice issues, such as income, education, pollution, housing, and healthy/risky behaviors. The social justice sites pull data from the federal government but since data is generally the most up to date on the home organization, we will follow the trail to the agency that gathered the data initially to look for updates and explore for other valuable information.