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In the Red: The U.S. Failure to Deliver on a Promise of Racial Equality
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Overview
This project showed that across the U.S., communities of color are overwhelmingly “in the red” on Sustainable Development Goal measures - while white communities tend to be “in the green.” In plain terms, nearly every indicator we looked at—education, jobs, health, environment, justice - highlighted huge racial gaps. As the data analyst on the team, I switched our workflow from Stata to R, which made it easier to manage large-scale analysis and keep everything reproducible. I merged hundreds of messy data sources, cleaned and organized them into a consistent structure, and built the visuals that turned abstract numbers into something people could immediately grasp.
A big part of my role was making the analysis not only rigorous but also clear and impactful - so the patterns of inequality weren’t buried in tables but visible at a glance. The final product gave policymakers and the public a way to see just how wide the gaps are, and why we can’t talk about sustainable development without talking about race in America.
The U.S. has huge racial gaps in access to basic resources - on average, white communities get about three times more support than communities of color. These inequities show up everywhere from schools and jobs to health and the environment, and the true scope is likely even worse because of missing data.
