brainstorm session on "economic rights"
  • access to food, health care, shelter, clear water, education, etc.
  • quality of those things
  • proximity of grocers, what kinds of, transportation to
  • affordability of foods, quality foods, restuarants, meals
  • rent affordability, compared to your income (% of)
  • where rented apartments lie in relations to occupation
  • % of people registered to vote, voting accessibility
  • % of people with health care, full health care, dental, etc.
  • social justice: how justly distributed are the above? is it comparable?
  • a time dimension: how were things 5 years ago? or 10?
  • any correaltions via race, gender, age, class, education?
  • other course for this information? (fair housing, food banks, free clinics, league of women voters, sscope, census, hud)
  • how does akron compare to cities of a comparable population size (msa-wise)?
  • what precedence in law, practice, philosophy, religion, etc exist for economic human rights? what are they? how far do/should they extend?
  • higher education rates, literacy, standard tests, public school funding
  • causes for status and disparities... why?
  • what can be done? what is being done?
  • index of dissimilarity (id), gini index, etc (as tests, measurements)
  • supermarket consolidation, historically