Our first Insights Insider of the year explores the use of SNAP benefits in Worcester County. In partnership with Greater Worcester Community Foundation and using data from Worcester County Insights, we analyzed SNAP usage, demographics, and the impacts new eligibility rules and funding cuts could have on the program.
Our first Insights Insider of the year explores the use of SNAP benefits in Worcester County. In partnership with Greater Worcester Community Foundation and using data from Worcester County Insights, we analyzed SNAP usage, demographics, and the impacts new eligibility rules and funding cuts could have on the program.
In May 2024, Greater Worcester Community Foundation and Worcester Regional Research Bureau partnered to launch Worcester County Insights, a county-wide community indicators platform offering the latest data on key indicators covering community life, demographics and diversity, economic mobility, employment and workforce, health and wellbeing, and youth and education.
WRRB releases the fifth edition, Insights Insider: Worcester County's Growing Job Sectors. Insights Insider #5 will analyze job growth as well as commuting patterns within Worcester County.
Insights Insider - Community Health: Asthma takes a dive into the prevalence of asthma in the region. Take a look at other indicators on Worcester County Insights to examine to get a fuller picture of community health.
In the next 20 days, Worcester County and the rest of the United States will head to the polls to vote in local, state, and Federal elections, including for President of the United States.
This edition of Insights Insider explores trends over the past 15-years, compares communities to understand geographic trends, and investigates incomes and their relationships to cost-burden.
The inaugural edition of Insights Insider, “Introducing Worcester County Insights”, explores the datasets that are used in the dashboard, highlights the dashboard's useful features and sample visualizations, and notes its value to specific stakeholders such as municipal officials, not-for-profits, businesses, community or advocacy organizations, higher education institutions, and more.
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