The Poor People’s Pandemic Report connects data about COVID-19 deaths at the county level to other demographic characteristics to help clarify the connection between poverty, race and COVID-19.

In the Red: the US Failure to Deliver on a Promise of Racial Equality extends SDSN USA’s recent report, Never More Urgent, which explores the policy choices underlying racial inequality in the US. This index seeks to explore the following question: How far are states from achieving the SDGs, if their progress is measured by the experiences of those who have been least served by development progress?

Created in conjunction with the National Center for Faith Based Initiatives and Howard University, Never More Urgent: A Preliminary Review of How the U.S. is Leaving Black, Hispanic and Indigenous Communities Behind, examines how well the United States, and US states in particular, serve communities of color by using the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a tool for evaluating performance. In doing so we affirm the potential of these communities as a driver for sustainable development, through the specific contributions that they can make throughout society.