…voters decide. James Woodson, policy director for the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub, said the fight for Black political power in California is far from over. “Census and redistricting…
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Hardship score for college admission gets mixed reaction in California
…all colleges in 2020. Using federal data and other sources, it gathers 31 socio-economic statistics about a student’s home census tract and high school, such as income levels, crime and…
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Green-Blue politics: How new tax on Chevron could fuel goals of post-petroleum Richmond
…shows Richmond ranks in the highest percentile for asthma cases compared with other census tracts in the state. The city is home to the Chevron Richmond Refinery, which is also…
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Exclusive: California’s homeless population grew again this year, especially in these counties
…stem the tide. That’s according to an exclusive CalMatters analysis of the latest results of the point-in-time count, a federally mandated census that requires counties to tally their unhoused residents over the course…
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Report on Bay Area’s racial-economic divide finds some Black residents living in persistent poverty
…U.S. Census data down to the census track level that compares population numbers by race and income. Eleven of the Bay Area’s 1,572 census tracts are identified in the report…
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Bay Area feels direct impact of Biden’s first executive orders on key issues
…census that overturns Trump’s declaration that the policy of the country is “to exclude from the (census) apportionment base aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status … to…
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Commute time
…nine Bay Area counties, according to the latest update to census data. 1. Contra Costa – 36.2 Minutes2. San Francisco – 32.4 Minutes3. Alameda – 31.6 Minutes4. Marin – 31…
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Revamped supervisor district map promises significant changes for parts of Contra Costa
…every 10 years, after the census results are released. The 2020 Census showed Contra Costa County growing by 11.35 percent since 2010, from 1,049,025 in 2010 to 1,168,064 residents in…
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‘Troubling’ audit reveals state failure to test millions of babies for toxic lead
…and 2018, among children who actually did get testing, half of those found to have elevated lead levels were located in just 15 percent of the state’s census tracts. In…
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How local independent commissions are altering California political redistricting
…this round of redistricting, a process that will create districts for elections from 2022 to 2030 based on the 2020 Census, the once-a-decade nationwide population count. These new panels are…