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ZIP Code Destiny

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    Money and the institutions that follow the map

    4 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone.

    1. 1
      College access, price and earnings

      Chapter 4.1 in Part IV, Becoming an adult

      A decade after entry, the median former student who received federal aid earned $28,330 at the median for-profit college and $42,014 at the median public college, for students who entered in 2009 to 2011.

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    2. 2
      Home value, income and redlining

      Chapter 5.2 in Part V, Home, work and money

      Across census tracts, each counted once, life expectancy at birth for deaths in 2010 to 2015 is 2.2 years higher for each doubling of the median home value for 2019 to 2023.

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    3. 3
      Health behaviors and the supply of care

      Chapter 7.1 in Part VII, Health and care

      In the most deprived tenth of census tracts, the modeled 2022 share of adults with a past-year dental visit was 24.4 points below the least deprived tenth, and the routine-checkup share 3.6 points above.

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      Disability, retirement and Medicare

      Chapter 7.4 in Part VII, Health and care

      In CDC PLACES model estimates from 2022 survey responses, the share of adults with any disability was 23.3% in the least deprived tenth of census tracts and 42.9% in the most deprived.

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