Using the colored icons below, select a goal to see the targets for southwestern Pennsylvania. Each target may also include known data sources, regional indicators, and local examples. You will also see the corresponding global target. As with all visioning projects, these continue to be a work in progress.
No Poverty
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Regional Targets:
The proportion of all families and individuals in SWPA who earn below a living wage is reduced by at least half. (1.2)
Known Datasets:
UNSDG Target: By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
Assistance programs offered by utilities, authorities, nonprofit organizations, and governments at all scales are more widely and equitably available and used by eligible families and individuals in SWPA, especially those who earn below a living wage. (1.3)
Local Examples:
- LIHEAP
- Emergency Support Organizations (Operation Better Block, Wellness Collective)
- Providers’ Administrative Data
Potential Indicators:
- # of assistance programs
- Applicants to assistance programs
- $ provided
- # of people receiving assistance
- Utility, authority, and government communications
Known Datasets:
- PA 211
- Human Services (DHS) – Allegheny County, PA
- Providers’ Administrative Data
UNSDG Target: By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
Families and individuals of all races, ages, sexes, SOGIE, abilities, ethnicities, origins, religions, and other statuses–especially those who earn below a living wage–have equitable access to capital and financial services, including loans, debt relief, property, natural resources, technology, and others. (1.4)
Known Datasets:
- URA
Local Examples:
- Neighborhood first-time homebuyer programs
- DHS discounted transit fare pilot program
- Housing authority homebuyer assistance
- Neighborhood allies tech programs
UNSDG Target: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
Emergency prevention, response, evacuation, and recovery plans are designed to provide targeted support to families and individuals who earn below a living wage, hold family care-taking roles, and are most vulnerable to environmental, social, and economic shocks and disasters. (1.5)
Known Datasets:
- First Street Foundationdata
- Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool
- FEMA
- U.S. Geologic Survey
- Utility outages
- Pitt landslide research group
- Smoke detectors
Local Examples:
- City of Pittsburgh & Army Corps of Engineers moving people out of flood zones
- City of PGH landslide prevention work
- Climate Action Plans
Public policy actively supporting the exit from poverty is coordinated across relevant boundaries and includes resident/community voices and collective power in decision making (1.B)
UNSDG target: Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions.
Quality Education
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Regional Targets:
Gender Equality
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Regional Targets:
Decent Work and Economic Growth
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Regional Targets:
Reduced Inequality
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Regional Targets:
By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of over burdened and under-resourced populations at a rate higher than the national average. Paying special attention to the varying needs across these populations. (10.1)
Known Datasets:
- American Community Survey (ACS) Microdata, i.e. Income – disaggregated by populations, local/regional vs. national average
UNSDG Target: By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average
Achieve proportional representation in each economic sector, and at each level of seniority within. (10.2)
Known Datasets:
- Survey or something like the PublicSource board tracking project
UNSDG Target: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
Improve turnout rates of elections through the increase of access to polls and the protection of voter rights, and candidate diversity, paying special attention to the needs of under-represented populations. (10.2)
Known Datasets:
- Can measure voter turnout and registration. Can also track policies
UNSDG Target: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
Ensure all populations have a connection to social fabric in a way that enables success and eliminates social isolation. (10.3)
Known Datasets:
- Measures of Loneliness and Social Isolation (2014/2022)
- UCLA Scale of Loneliness
- Area Agency on Aging (DHS) or Age Friendly Greater Pittsburgh – may also be in the “State of Aging, Disability, & Family Caregiving in Allegheny County” – December 2022, UCSUR
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data (BRFSS)
- Allegheny County Health Department
UNSDG Target: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard
Increase access to care across generations, healthcare, and paid sick leave. (10.3)
Known Datasets:
- Survey Data: People with Primary care providers
- Homewood Children’s Village
- State of Aging Survey
- UCSUR
- People who have insurance and barriers to entry for healthcare
- BRFSS, Allegheny County Health Department
- Non-profit provided sick leave/ time off
- The Bayer Center
- Family and Medical Leave data
- Women and Girls Foundation
- Elder care data
- USCUR, Area Agency on Aging (DHS), age friendly Pgh.
- Cancer screening rates, other medical services
- Allegheny County Health Department
UNSDG Target: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard
Eliminate discriminatory laws, policies, and practices within the policing and justice systems to ensure equitable treatment of all. (10.3)
Known Datasets:
- Arrest disparities by demographic, policies around policing (grief to action), Abolition Law Center
- CONNECT (LEAD) Data to come, ALC, Allegheny Co Policing Project, CAASI Grief to Action
- Allegheny Co Policing Project (GSPIA)
UNSDG Target: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard