Education & Employment Opportunity
What’s the opportunity structure of your state? Employment instability resulting from abuse can last up to 3 years after a relationship has ended (Adams et al., 2012). And survivors face constrained career growth (lower starting salaries with slower growth) and reduced educational attainment (often needed for jobs with living wages) (Adams et al., 2013), among other things. Abusive partners may interrupt or sabotage these opportunities, but what states do to create and protect these opportunities matters too.
The purpose of this Education & Employment Safety Landscape is to share data that helps tell the story of:
- Whether survivors have access to opportunities and protections in education & employment
- How different populations fare in the education & employment landscape of each state
- What opportunity in education and employment for survivors looks like, and what is required to create it in our states
“Certain ‘opportunity structures’ lead to stability and personal advancement in our society. These opportunity structures include high-performing schools, affordable housing, sustainable employment, safety from crime, environmentally safe neighborhoods, home equity and wealth, access to affordable health care, and others. If a person is confronted with barriers to success in one opportunity structure—high quality K-12 education, for example—it is likely that the person will be confronted with barriers in other opportunity structures.”
“The uncertainty of everything now is very frightening. People are afraid of getting sick, of not having health insurance, job security, trouble finding a good job, rent is too high, hurricane season, flooding rains, government corruption, death of loved ones, and on and on.”
– advocate-respondent in CSAJ’s Economic Impact of COVID-19 Survey
Education & Employment Dashboard
Note: Dashboards are best viewed on a desktop or laptop computer in full screen mode. The layout and functionality may distort to fit smart-phone screens.
View Methodology & Documentation Doc for a list of all terms, data, and data sources for each Safety Landscape.
- Full-screen mode: If the embedded dashboard below is hard to view, click the “expand” icon in the lower right corner of the window to view in full screen mode.
- Filters (dropdown menus): In the dashboard below, there are five filters (dropdown menus) that allow you to change and refine data in the chart (from left to right): Indicator Type, Ed/Employment Indicator, Demographic Factor, Race/Ethnicity, and Year
- Using the filters to select/refine data in the view: From the “Indicator Type” dropdown (far left) select the category of data you want to view: Access or Outcome. Then select a specific data point from the “Ed/Employment Indicator” dropdown to view in the map and related charts. Some indicators can be further refined by using the “Demographic Factor” and “Race/Ethnicity” dropdowns. (If there is no data available in thes dropdowns, “no sub-category data” and “no race/ethnicity data” will appear in the dropdown window)
- A note on the “Year” dropdown menu: Some indicators come from datasets from different years. If map or other chart detail disappears in the dashboard, try selecting a different year.
- In the map view: Hover over states for pop-ups with additional state-specific data.
- In the State to State Comparison chart (below map): View how states are distributed on the data point you selected via all five dropdowns. Assess whether your state ranks higher or lower on the selected indicator, is clustered with other states, and/or is above or below the national average (the vertical red line).
- In the All States/Territories chart (right of map): View specific statistics for states, sorted by top and bottom. Use the slider and dropdown to display more states or change how it is sorted.
- Click on your state in the map view: Toggle to a state drill-down with the details on the selected indicator for your state, including general population and rates of violence data.
- Click the download icon (bottom-right): To download a PDF, image, or PowerPoint slide of the dashboard. Ensure you’ve selected the data point via all five dropdowns and the view you want. Bring this to meetings, share with partners, add your own data to supplement, and use it in your advocacy!
- Who has access to education, employment, and unemployment insurance in your state? What else do you know about survivors’ lived experiences in these areas?
- What trends do you notice in unemployment, access to unemployment insurance data, and low wage work? What are survivors unique risks and barriers here?
- What data is not depicted here that you’d like to see?
- What’s upstream from the education/employment picture painted here? What policies, funding, or other forces play a role in?
SEED-ing Advocacy
Click the links below to craft stories to fuel your advocacy & share your work, data, and recommendations with others. First, consider:
- What data stands out to you?
- How can this data be useful?
- What other data do you have to supplement what you see here? What else do you need?
- How can this data support your advocacy? Or how can your past advocacy efforts, insights, and lessons learned help others and improve the dashboard?
Use the prompts below to practice using dashboard data to craft and submit stories and ideas for systems change. You can also request assistance from CSAJ.
Use the prompts below to share your advocacy stories and best-practices with us. We’ll anonymize and add these as “map layers” in the dashboards in the future so the entire field can benefit. You can also request assistance from CSAJ.
Supplemental Resources
These additional resources are not meant to be exhaustive, but to fill some data gaps, and serve examples of data you may have (or could collect), including how it can be compiled and used in advocacy efforts. And they are meant to spur your curiosity to explore further.
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Characteristics of the Unemployment Insurance Claimants Data reports from the U.S. Department of Labor
Looking Upstream: Policy & Systems Change
Check back soon!
We are currently developing a National Survivor Economic Equity Policy Platform and will be adding more specific policy analysis to the dashboards and website.
