You can measure inequality and its pain. It is the expectation of losing income in the next week or month. It is having less cash on hand than you need to live for the next month. It is the fear of not knowing where your next meal will come from. It is the eviction notices piling up on your door and the fear of homelessness. Income inequality has reached a valley not seen since the Gilded Age, according to one economist. In this National Press Foundation webinar on Oct. 27, we will teach journalists how to find the data they need to illustrate and quantify poverty and inequality in their communities. We will help reporters understand which demographics are losing ground and what spending looks like at the bottom of the curve. We will look at mobility and avenues out of poverty.

For the last 15 minutes of the briefing, Wall Street Journal data reporter Paul Overberg will walk you through how to localize poverty data from the Census. You must register to ask questions.

Those who attend this program and one other poverty and inequality program are eligible to apply for NPF’s Poverty and Inequality Awards. Applications for the award will open Nov. 1.

Speakers:

Lowell Ricketts, Data Scientist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Kiyadh Burt, Senior Policy Analyst, Hope Policy Institute.

Paul Overberg, Data Reporter, The Wall Street Journal.

This program is funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Heising-Simons Foundation. NPF is solely responsible for the content.