🔌 Energy costs hit hardest where it hurts most. In several Louisiana parishes, low-income households spend 13-16% of their income on energy—far above the national average of 6%. ⚡ While Louisiana has low electricity rates, extra fees for storms, grid reliability, and new power plants drive up utility bills. Read more in the Pathways to Prosperity: Louisiana report https://lnkd.in/gcRfztgu
The Data Center
Research Services
New Orleans, Louisiana 2,657 followers
Independent Analysis for Informed Decisions in Southeast Louisiana
About us
The Data Center is the most trusted resource for data about greater New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana. We are fully independent and we are experts at bringing data together from multiple sources. In doing so, we are uniquely able to step beyond the limits of analyzing data from just one perspective and take a 360–degree look at issues that matter most to our region from the government, business, nonprofit, and community perspective. In these ways the Data Center realizes its mission to build prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable communities by making informed decisions possible. The Data Center is as good at getting our data out as we are at putting it together. We put our information together in a way that is easy to understand and to the point. Our reports regularly reach over 100,000 individuals, including neighborhood leaders, members of the media, elected officials, business leaders, and other researchers. The Data Center’s areas of expertise include disaster recovery, regional economic analysis, workforce development, racial disparity indicators, blight reduction, affordable housing, and coastal population movements. To learn more, visit our website at datacenterresearch.org
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- Research Services
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- 2-10 employees
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- New Orleans, Louisiana
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- democratizing data and data analysis
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Employees at The Data Center
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Allison Plyer
Chief Demographer at The Data Center
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Lamar Gardere
Executive Director at The Data Center
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Timolynn Sams
"We are but one degree of separation linked by chains of acquaintance" - | Community Impact Specialist | Networker| Social Justice Advocate
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Trisha Rasmason
Customer Service & Government Bidding Specialist.
Updates
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💡Extreme climate events are increasing the number and duration of power outages. Power disruptions often occur during the hottest or coldest times of the year, leaving residents without essential heating or cooling (Heat-related deaths). Power outages also contribute to a surge in carbon monoxide poisonings. Read more in the Pathways to Prosperity: Louisiana report https://lnkd.in/g4UPPSit
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☀️ Heat has caused nearly twice as many deaths as flooding in the United States Read more in the Pathways to Prosperity: Louisiana report https://lnkd.in/gD_azpmC
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🔥 In Louisiana, working-age people are more likely to seek medical attention for heat-related illnesses due to physically demanding outdoor work requirements in agriculture, construction, oil & gas, and transportation. Read more in the Pathways to Prosperity: Louisiana report https://lnkd.in/gQgK_4-6
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🔥 Heat is dangerous. Over the past 30 years, extreme heat has caused nearly 2x more deaths than flooding in the U.S. In Louisiana, heat-related deaths surged from 15 in 2020 to 88 in 2023. Read more in the Pathways to Prosperity: Louisiana report https://lnkd.in/eaUjbBqr
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🔥 For 16 straight months (June 2023–Sept 2024), global temperatures broke all previous records. Louisiana’s extreme heat days have surged from 47 in 2021 to 82 in 2023—nearly 3 months of dangerous heat.☀️⚠️ Read more in the Pathways to Prosperity: Louisiana report https://lnkd.in/gp9u6qZC
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🔥 2024 was the hottest year on record, surpassing 2023. Extreme heat is especially dangerous in Louisiana, where high humidity makes it harder for the body to cool down. Vulnerable groups—seniors, children, pregnant individuals, and those with health conditions—face the highest risks. Louisiana’s extreme heat days have surged from 47 in 2021 to 82 in 2023—nearly 3 months of dangerous heat.☀️⚠️ Read more in the Pathways to Prosperity: Louisiana report https://lnkd.in/gzq5Jqrh
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Disasters are compounding woes in Louisiana where a weak economy is leading to population loss. To learn more go to: https://lnkd.in/g9_DdyHU
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Nearly 1 million Louisiana properties (42%) are at major or extreme risk of flooding within the next 30 years. This flood risk is greatest among the southern parishes of Ascension, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Mary, Terrebonne and Vermillion parishes where more than half of all properties are at major risk of flooding. Read more in the Pathways to Prosperity: Louisiana report https://lnkd.in/g8GFaZ3m
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Louisiana lost over 2,000 square miles of land between 1932 and 2015, due largely to reduced sediment deposits prevented by Mississippi River levees, canal cutting for industry, and the accelerating impacts of subsidence and sea level rise. Read more in the Pathways to Prosperity: Louisiana report https://lnkd.in/gCMH2H4f
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