Black Wealth Data News Today

Data indicators often fail to tell the whole story about Black enterprise. Employment rates, for example, fail to take into account the quality of jobs held, whether they offer livable wages and how many jobseekers have given up on trying to enter the workforce. Similarly, the Black Business Association of Oregon (BBAO) wanted a more nuanced and real-time method of tracking the economic vitality of Oregon’s Black community – and the wealth gap between Black and White Oregonians.

The Black Economic Prosperity Dashboard includes data on population, health, education, economic well-being and business ownership that can be used to better address racial wealth gaps in the state.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott will speak to 20 mayors from North and South America on Wednesday at the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance at Johns Hopkins University.

The platform aims to empower decision-makers, government officials and journalists, working to improve and chronicle economic opportunity.