Publications

Communities Speak data provides revealing insights into resilience and opportunities for communities. These data are critical tools for policymakers as New York City continues to recover from COVID-19.

  Families with Children

Families with children in New York City face extraordinary challenges that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Not only do our most vulnerable families face unprecedented economic, social and health hardships, but by not effectively addressing their needs we are jeopardizing the entire City’s economic recovery.

 Small Businesses

Administered from September to December 2020, the Small Business Survey revealed important insights into the behavior of small businesses during the pandemic and the public lockdown in New York. In our data exploration, we have discovered powerful stories of resilience from small firms including Restaurants, Technology firms and Women Minority Business Enterprises (WMBE). We have examined all these enterprises on wide ranging factors.