Info and Data Links

Resource: Info and Data links

Please make sure that you take advantage of the great amount of information in the links below. You need to find verifiable, reliably credible sources of information for your work. These are a great start.

Center for the Study of Political Graphics – This is a direct link to the search page, use the search bar to narrow down results. 

Just Seeds – this is the co-operative that was founded by and is still run by artists. We have seen this site. You can use the search bar at the top of the page to find topics and print types. 

Smithsonian National Museum of American History – This is a direct link to the search page, with two filter terms. “Princeton Poster” is a large collection, as you will see on the page. Of course, you are free to use the archive as you wish.  

Southern Poverty Law Center – Hate Map
World Economic Forum: Racial Inequality Gaps

Center for American Progress: Systematic Inequality

US Dept of Labor: Employment/Unemployment data

The Intercept: Climate Crimes – a series of different reports 

US EPA: Climate Change Indicators

NYTimes: “New Market for Trading ‘Pollution Rights’” (1989) – you may need to sign in to the library to read this (in case you do not know, the library gives you all free access to a NYTimes subscription)

Scientific American: Making a Market for Pollution (2010)

US EPA: Plastic Pollution

Library of Congress: Right to Peaceful Assembly

Civil Rights/FindLaw: Is there a Right to Peaceful protest? 

Harvard: Gender Inequality and Women in the Workplace

Payscale: State of the Gender pay Gap in 2020

IPSOS: “Americans Split on Right to Protest vs Law and Order”

Donya Ziaee  “Art activism is one of the ways Indigenous creatives and educators are transforming the cityscape to undo the erasure of their histories and presence.”

Aleen Brown (The Intercept) “A LAKOTA HISTORIAN ON WHAT CLIMATE ORGANIZERS CAN LEARN FROM TWO CENTURIES OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE”

US CDC “Access to Health Care

The Lancet (Journal): Inequality and the health-care system in the USA

American Bar Association: Native Americans: A Crisis in Health Equity (this report written by Mary Smith, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, is the national secretary of the American Bar Association and is a former principal deputy director (and chief executive) of the Indian Health Service.)

The Century Foundation: Racism, Inequality, and Healthcare for African Americans

US CDC: FastStats – Mental Health

US CDC: Household Pulse Survey – COVID19 (Mental Health, including raw stats data)

Mental health America: “Ranking the States 2018

The National Council: “New Study Reveals Lack of Access as Root Cause for Mental Health Crisis in America

World Economic Forum: “3 things to know about women in STEM

AAUW: “Research & Data: The STEM Gap

Statista: US Employment & Statistics

Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality: 20 Facts About US Inequality

ACLU: Extreme Sentencing

Equal Justice Initiative: Excessive Punishment

NCSL: States and Capital Punishment

UC Davis: What is the Current Poverty Rate in the USA?

Reuters: America’s Poor becoming more destitute under Trump (UN Report)

Census.gov: Income and Poverty 2019

PBS/Frontline: How COVID has effected Poverty in USA

US DHHS: History of Poverty thresholds

The Lancet: Where have all the bees gone? ( you will need to use the library journal finder to access this)

PHYS.org (a publication of SCIENCEX: Climate change reduces the abundance and diversity of wild bees, study finds 

Western Exterminator (that’s really their name…) Bees in CA

US Immigration Council: Fact Sheet

PEW Research Center: Key finding about US Immigrants

USA.gov: Immigration and Citizenship

NYTimes: Thousands of Immigrant Children Said They Were Sexually Abused in U.S. Detention Centers, Report Says

ACLU: ICE and Border patrol Abuses