SDSN USA recently released a project on the unequal delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by race and ethnicity across the US. The project included a report, an interactive data index, and a StoryMap, which dives deeper into the findings.
The SDSN USA Research team created an ArcGIS StoryMap to illustrate and provide context for the results of In the Red: the US Failure to Deliver on a Promise of Racial Equality. The StoryMap lays out how the project findings point to an unfulfilled promise of racial equality based on an unequal distribution of resources, services, and opportunities by race. The StoryMap includes high quality maps and graphs from the report, highlighting disparities in indicators like life expectancy and children attending high poverty schools, and expands on the lack of publicly available racially and ethnically disaggregated data, another key takeaway from the project.
This StoryMap was created to help display how US states are delivering sustainability across different racial and ethnic groups, and can be used as a tool to hold states accountable for addressing racial inequalities when developing solutions for clean water, quality education, ending hunger, delivering justice and more.
ArcGIS StoryMaps is a web-based storytelling platform where users can share maps in a narrative and multimedia context. SDGs Today, a Global Hub for Real-Time SDG Data, features real-time and timely data on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and offers education resources to support countries, institutions and civil society members to produce, share and engage with the data to help ensure that we meet the global goals by 2030.
This StoryMap can be found below, on SDGs Today, or on the In the Red Racial Inequality Index site.