Mark Abraham
Data on cities+equity+wellbeing. Executive Dir, DataHaven( tweets here don't represent my employer. WKKF Fellow. #NHV resident.
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How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters
Steven Lee Myers - Nytimes.com 15h 5 tweets
Twitter took down nearly 1,000 accounts that it said were part of a state-directed effort to undermine protests. Here is a look at their activities.
Mark Abraham Interesting use of #dataviz. How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit #HongKong’s Protesters: #propaganda #civiclife 9h
U.S. has spent $6 trillion on wars that killed 500,000 people since 9/11, a report says
Newsweek 307d 28 tweets
The report found that “high costs in war and war-related spending pose a national security concern because they are unsustainable.”
Mark Abraham Enough $ to build a #PDX-sized bicycle lane network in each of the 100,000 largest U.S. cities. "The USA has spent nearly $6 trillion on wars that directly contributed to the deaths of 500,000 people since the 9/11 attacks of 2001." - 6d
Visualizing and Powering Healthy Lives
Putting Local Data to Work 8d 1 tweets
ABOUT THE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Visualizing and Powering Healthy Lives is a $2 million grant initiative that supports 10 projects across the US, leveraging
Doorbell-camera firm Ring has partnered with 400 police forces, extending surveillance reach
SFGate 21d 12 tweets
The doorbell-camera company Ring has quietly forged video-sharing partnerships with more than 400 police forces across the United States, granting them access to homeowners' camera footage and a powerful role in what the company calls America's "new...
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Mark Abraham The feed is "a stream of local suspicion, combining police reports compiled by “News Team” with “hyperlocal” posts from homeowners reporting stolen packages & questionable visitors...“Neighbors” are anonymous, but public video does not obscure faces" 20d
A Comprehensive Analysis of Morbidity Life Expectancies Among Older Hispanic Subgroups in the United States: Variation by Nativity and Country of Origin
PubMed Central (PMC) 20d 1 tweets
Although a clear advantage in mortality has been documented among older Hispanic subgroups, particularly the foreign-born, research examining health selectivity in morbidity life expectancies among older Hispanics are scarce. Differences in...
Mark Abraham A Comprehensive Analysis of Morbidity Life Expectancies Among Older Hispanic Subgroups in the United States: Variation by Nativity and Country of Origin (2018) #phealth #lifeexpectancy 20d
Whites Living In Midsize Cities Report Poor Health Compared To Counterparts In Urban Centers, Survey Shows
Connecticut Health Investigative Team 22d 1 tweets
In West Haven, 24% of white residents reported their health as fair or poor, a rate worse than whites statewide and in New Haven. Fifty miles east, 19% of white New London residents reported feeling depressed or hopeless, higher numbers than...
Per Square Mile: If the world's population lived in one city...
Tim De Chant - Per Square Mile 27d 1 tweets
If the world's population lived in one city, how big would it be?
Mark Abraham Don't stop at a billion 27d
How Ethical Is It To Move to A Neighborhood for Its School Rating?
Parents 28d 1 tweets
Picking a "good" school is very different than scrolling for five-star reviews when online shopping. And it turns out the decisions we’re making are perpetuating segregation in many communities. Here's what you need to know when choosing a school...
Mark Abraham “Research has found that all students thrive in integrated #schools & take with them the ability to better operate in diverse spaces throughout their lives. Studies show they have higher average test scores, more leadership skills, and reduced anxiety.” 28d
A Grand Plan to Get Suburban Bicyclists Into Paris
Feargus O'Sullivan - CityLab 28d 1 tweets
French cycling fans have proposed an ambitious network of bicycle paths linking the suburbs with the city center
Mark Abraham "Paris is working on a plan for a cycle-track network that covers the metro area. Called “RER V” (velo)—a reference to the city’s transformative suburban rapid-transit rail system" #CPlan #phealth (Image from ) 28d
Obamacare is closing the coverage gap between rich and poor, black and white
MarketWatch 29d 1 tweets
New research puts numbers on the shrinking health-care coverage gap, but notes the law’s future is uncertain.
Discrimination Undercuts 'Choice' In Housing Choice Voucher Program, Boston Fed Study Finds
BostonomiX - Wbur.org 35d 1 tweets
The study finds that black residents have a significantly harder time getting landlords to accept Section 8 housing vouchers and even show them apartments in the Boston area.
Summer in the City Is Hot, but Some Neighborhoods Suffer More
Nadja Popovich - Nytimes.com 41d 21 tweets
New research shows that summer temperatures can vary as much as 20 degrees across different parts of a city, with poor and minority neighborhoods often bearing the brunt.
Mark Abraham Summer in the City Is Hot, but Some Neighborhoods Suffer More: on new research #resilience #cplan #phealth #climatechange #nnip 40d
Ugly Gerry
uglygerry.com 48d 5 tweets
Gerrymandering is ugly.
US in the midst of a white nationalist terrorism crisis
The Sydney Morning Herald 46d 17 tweets
Far-right extremists were responsible for 100 per cent of all terrorist attacks on US soil since the end of 2017.
Bicycles, Gender, and Risk: Driver Behaviors When Passing Cyclists
Gender Policy Report - Gender Policy Report 57d 3 tweets
New research on drivers' behavior when passing cyclists shows that women have real reason to be concerned about their safety on the road.
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Mark Abraham "In a field experiment, we found that drivers were significantly more likely to encroach—i.e. to pass closer than three feet—on a female cyclist than on male cyclists." New study at #genderequity #CPlan #bikenyc cc 48d
The US Prosperity Index 2019
The Legatum Institute United States Prosperity Index 2019 49d 1 tweets
A new United States Prosperity Index (USPI), published by the Legatum Institute, reveals that prosperity has increased across America over the last 10 years and the gap between the most and least prosperous states is narrowing.
Mark Abraham Here are the top 20 states on measures like social capital, water quality, anti-discrimination laws, life expectancy, education, pensions, and inclusivity: New index #wellbeing #mapoli #ctpolitics c 49d
The psychological tricks designers use to make cities happier places
WIRED UK 50d 2 tweets
From rainbow crosswalks to communal herb gardens, urban planners and architects are borrowing from neuroscience to build environments that people want to work and live in
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Mark Abraham "Whether a busy road or a poorly-insulated building keeps people up at night, there is no way for your body to come back to #homeostasis (equilibrium).” The psychological tricks designers use to make cities happier places: #CPlan #wellbeing v 49d
‘Skills gap’ arguments overlook collective bargaining and low minimum wages
Equitable Growth 128d 2 tweets
The supposed "skills gap" is a theory about lagging wages that became almost accepted wisdom, but there has never been empirical evidence to back up the underlying theoretical foundation. If the current small increase in wage growth is to be...
Wealth taxation: An introduction to net worth taxes and how one might work in the United States
Equitable Growth 238d 6 tweets
This brief provides an introduction to net worth taxes, also referred to as wealth taxes. It summarizes how a net worth tax works, reviews the revenue potential of such a tax, and describes the distribution of the economic burden that would be...
The Economist Who Would Fix the American Dream
The Atlantic 63d 38 tweets
No one has done more to dispel the myth of social mobility than Raj Chetty. But he has a plan to make equality of opportunity a reality.