[Excerpt] Grubbs and others from the community gathered at the Institute Library on Chapel Street Wednesday evening to talk about that report, the Greater New Haven Community Index 2013, and about its real-world implications in New Haven.
[Excerpt] The report, written by Mark Abraham, executive director of DataHaven, has gotten high praise for its compilation of data benchmarking economic opportunity, health needs and the civic life of Greater New Haven residents.
[Excerpt] Economic opportunity in the Greater New Haven area has remained stagnant in the past decade, according to a report released in late September by the nonprofit group DataHaven.
[Excerpt] From 2003–2009, 12 out of every 1000 babies born in New Haven died, and a higher percengtage of those deaths were African American children, according to the Community Health Index recently published by DataHaven.
[Excerpt]: "Eyes calmly scanning his two monitors and the documents spread out before him, Abraham has the demeanor of a Buddhist monk.“Mark is incredibly perceptive,” said Jim Farnam. “He presents things in a low-key but effective way.”
