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Pioneer Valley Data

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A one-stop shop for accessible, customizable information that provides the public, nonprofits, municipalities, and charitable foundations with a user-friendly tool to examine and assess a wide range of regional metrics.

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Bar chart showing increase in food insecurity between 2019 and 2020, 2021.

COVID Recovery Dashboard, “Safety Net, Food, and Hunger in the Pioneer Valley” Highlights Persistence of Food Insecurity

Pioneer Valley Data’s second COVID Recovery Dashboard, “Safety Net, Food, & Hunger in the Pioneer Valley”, highlights disturbing increases in food insecurity throughout the Pioneer Valley during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the surge in unemployment documented in our first COVID recovery dashboard, “How has the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Workers in the Pioneer Valley?”, thousands of…

Black and Hispanic/Latino Workers Hit Disproportionately by the COVID-19 Shutdown of the Economy

Black and Hispanic/Latino Workers Hit Disproportionately by the COVID-19 Shutdown of the Economy

Labor Day has come and gone, an occasion marked by some of us by enjoying a day off work, while for many others (mostly the same “essential workers” who have continued to step up during the entire “Pandemic Pause”), it was another day of work facing increased risk of infection, often at wages inadequate to…

Community Resilience in the Pioneer Valley

Community Resilience in the Pioneer Valley

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released a new set of community resilience indicators, which measure “the capacity of individuals and households to absorb, endure, and recover from the health, social, and economic impacts of a disaster such as a hurricane or pandemic.” Just as COVID-19 has hit some of our communities harder than others, the…

Pioneer Valley Data Access

So what’s all this data for?

Pioneer Valley Data seeks to encourage open and honest conversations using the most up-to-date and accurate information to determine where we are as a region on a whole host of important topics, as well as where we should go.

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