Common Good Forecaster, Exploring the Impact of Education in Your Community

Two new interactive websites on education and housing

Common Good Forecaster, Exploring the Impact of Education in Your Community has been created and developed by United Way and the American Human Development Project

This interactive site allows the user to see how differing levels of education (less than high school, high school, some college , college graduate and more) impacts other areas of well being, including health (life expectancy in years, low birth weight, obesity and homicide rate), financial stability (poverty, median personal earnings, unemployment), civic participation (voter turnout) and more. Data can be manipulated for each state and for states' counties.

Selected Features and Findings:

• Incarceration rates and 8th grade proficiency rates for each state.
• Downloadable data sets for each county for each state (includes all data for all indicators for health, financial stability, civic participation and educational achievement).
• Rates of voting for each state.
• State data can be compared to national averages, and county data can be compared to state averages.

W. Toby Hur, MSW
Field Education Faculty
UCLA School of Public Affairs
Department of Social Welfare
3250 Public Affairs Bldg.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
(310) 825-9736
thur@spa.ucla.edu
www.spa.ucla.edu