Data Resources

  • 2015 Metro Hartford Progress Points Access to Opportunity

    Metro Hartford Progress Points aims to identify and better understand the critical education, income, and opportunity gaps that exist in the region. The report focuses on three main points (better schools, better jobs, and stronger neighborhoods) and identifies challenges facing the city, inner suburbs, and outer suburbs. This is followed by an analysis of how a improving these points can increase regional prosperity, and the report highlights ways in which the community is already moving in that direction.

    Jul. 31, 2015

    Economy, Education, Housing

  • 2014 Metro Hartford Progress Points: A snapshot of our communities

    Metro Hartford Progress Points takes a look at the forces shaping Hartford and the region today, both the connections across it and the critical education, income and opportunity gaps within it. It is a call to action for groups and individuals throughout Metro Hartford to recognize all that we share, to join forces to address our challenges and to create more vibrant and prosperous communities for all. The report covers topics ranging from education to poverty to affordable housing and even globalization of the region.

    Dec. 31, 2014

    Economy, Education, Housing

  • Resurgent Cities and Economic Revitalization: Lessons for Older Industrial Cities

    This presentation, given at the University of Hartford's "What Can Hartford Learn from Other Cities" symposium, draws parallels between Springfield, Mass. and other resurgent cities, ultimately asking whether these lessons can be applied to Hartford as well.

    Mar. 8, 2011

    Economy

  • Assessing HIV AIDS Prevention Services in Three Connecticut Cities

    This report analyzes whether preventative services offered by the Connecticut Department of Public Health are reaching priority populations (focusing on New Haven, Hartford, and Willimantic).

    Dec. 31, 2010

    Health

  • Hartford Blueprint for Young Children: Delivering the Promise of Success

    The City of Hartford created a five-year plan to create a cohesive, coordinated, family-centered system that uses the programs in the city, along with focused public policymaking and financial investment, to improve the lives of young children, age birth to eight. 

    May. 31, 2005

    Education

  • People’s History: The Story of Hartford Areas Rally Together

    People's History: The Story of Hartford Areas Rally Together (Hartford, CT: HART, 1995). Uploaded by permission of the lead author, David Radcliffe. Link to Internet Archive.

    Oct. 26, 1995

    Civic Vitality

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