Utilizing Data to Give Meaning to Impact and Plot a Just Recovery

For more than a year, we heard stories of “essential,” but seemingly disposable, workers losing their lives and livelihoods to COVID-19. All the while, access to the tools of recovery (from stimulus checks to vaccines) remained dismal for low-income communities. As the globe plots a post-pandemic future, we need more than stories to move funding, hearts, minds – and policies – to address the systemic disparities that COVID revealed. HIP’s COVID-19 Impact Disparity Project takes a detailed look at the impacts of COVID on Latin America and Latinx communities across the Americas. Along with other data-visualization and data-sharing efforts coming out of the pandemic, HIP’s project provides a lasting and evolving framework for decision-makers, grantmakers, and policy-makers to use when unpacking the impact of 2020 and envision lasting systemic change.