John, the 2023 Prosperity Now Scorecard is here!
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Dear John,
This Valentine’s Day, we’re excited to announce OUR favorite pairing, Policy + Action: A Match Made in Data, the 2023 update to the long-standing Prosperity Now Scorecard. The Scorecard serves as an online data and advocacy tool that puts racial wealth equity at the center of building an economy that works for everyone.
Use the Scorecard to see how the story of wealth in America interacts with your community by exploring data for cities, counties, congressional districts, metro areas, and tribal areas for income and assets, businesses and jobs, homeownership and housing, health care and education.
Is your state making strides toward racial economic equity? This year we’ve added a national and state-level analysis of wealth changes over the past five years, showing that:
- Overall net worth in the United States has increased.
- The net worth gap between White households and households of color persists.
- The gap in national homeownership between White households and households of color has narrowed.
- The income gap between White households and households of color has narrowed.
So, what else is new this year?
Baby Bonds, a promising policy solution to address the racial wealth divide, and one of Prosperity Now’s core policy priorities, is the newest addition to the Scorecard policies. We hope this will support the growing interest across states to implement and conduct research on Baby Bonds legislation.
This year, we’re kicking off our efforts to transform the Scorecard from a tool that provides basic descriptive statistics to providing analysis that will uncover areas for targeted, evidence-based policy recommendations, because we believe that policy and action are a true love match, made possible by data. Be on the lookout this year for some exciting news on the long-term direction of the Scorecard that will help us provide even more targeted insights to support every state down the road to prosperity!
If you have any questions on the Prosperity Now Scorecard, please email us at [email protected].
—The 2023 Prosperity Now Scorecard Team
P.S. The Scorecard is a comprehensive tool that not only provides useful data at many levels, but also lets you create custom reports and graphs to help you strengthen your advocacy efforts and drive change to help close the racial wealth divide. We break down how to use it here.
