Reading path
Race and place
5 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone.
- 1Birthweight and preterm birth
Chapter 2.1 in Part II, Birth
Low birthweight was 7.4% of births in the least deprived tenth of counties and 9.7% in the most deprived, for births in 2018 to 2024 in counties of 100,000 or more residents.
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- 2Test scores, class and race
Chapter 3.1 in Part III, School
Average achievement in third through eighth grade, 2009 to 2019, differs by 2.54 grade levels between the 5th and 95th percentile of counties and rises with county income in 45 of 45 states.
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- 3School discipline and incarceration
Chapter 3.4 in Part III, School
Out-of-school suspensions in the 2020 to 2021 school year ran from 3.1 per thousand students in the least deprived tenth of school districts to 23.6 in the most deprived.
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- 4Race, income and mobility
Chapter 4.3 in Part IV, Becoming an adult
White children from low-income families born in 1978 to 1983 reached a higher adult income rank than Black children raised in the same tract in 92.5% of the 30,997 tracts where both are estimated.
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- 5Air pollution
Chapter 6.1 in Part VI, Environment, connection and well-being
The national traffic-pollution percentile of census tracts, modeled for 2020, has a correlation of −0.41 with the Area Deprivation Index across tracts but +0.19 within counties.
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