2015 02: Access to Jobs and Opportunity

The Kirwan Institute at Ohio State University has done extensive work which examines neighborhood conditions and proximity to opportunities such as high performing education or sustainable employment that have a critical impact on quality of life and self-advancement. The central premise of opportunity mapping is that residents of a metropolitan area are situated within an interconnected web of opportunities that shape their quality of life. Opportunity mapping provides an analytical framework to measure opportunity comprehensively in metropolitan regions and determine who has access to opportunity rich areas.