# Research review and page-by-page coverage

Reviewed 29–30 September 2026. Source: David Duru, *Summer Economic Inequality Project (1)*, 37-page PDF supplied by the author. The author confirmed this version.

## Scope and interpretation

All 37 pages were reviewed, including the concluding analysis. Topic sections follow that analysis while bringing supporting tables from earlier pages into the relevant tab. This is an editorial and source review, not a guarantee that every statistic in the manuscript is independently verified.

- **Source checked:** compared with a public source or reproduced from its public export.
- **Paper transcription:** transcribed from the manuscript and linked to the named source, but not fully reproduced from the original table. Some individual values within these charts were checked separately.
- **Settings incomplete:** retained as an exploratory observation only; missing filters prevent a reproducible comparison.

Source dates are not interchangeable. Census city estimates, school-district results, county health indicators, and metropolitan BLS statistics cover different populations. ACS five-year estimates are not single-year observations. Margins of error were not retained in the paper; small differences should not be presented as statistically significant.

## Page-by-page disposition

| PDF page | Material reviewed | Website destination / decision |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Opening divider | No numerical evidence. |
| 2 | Proposal and purpose | Project Details and Questions; goals are distinguished from findings. |
| 3 | Sources and software | Sources; the current site uses static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. |
| 4 | ACS economic profile and income | Employment: income distribution. |
| 5 | Occupations and income | Employment: occupation mix and income; corrected the employed-population label. |
| 6 | Poverty by age, group, and work | Neighborhood Conditions, Racial Statistics, Employment; inconsistent age rows withheld. |
| 7 | Attainment, work, internet | Education and Employment; corrected the some-college/associate’s category. |
| 8 | Internet and owner costs | Education and Neighborhood Conditions. |
| 9 | Occupancy, owner costs, rent | Neighborhood Conditions; cash-rent households are not all renters. |
| 10 | Housing burden and values | Neighborhood Conditions; correct denominators and thresholds. |
| 11 | Household income | Employment; distribution, median, and mean. |
| 12 | Demographic population table | Racial Statistics review notes; overlapping/unclear categories not charted. |
| 13 | CNYVitals divider | No numerical evidence. |
| 14 | School scores and graduation | Education; replaced transcriptions with 2025 public exports where reproducible. |
| 15 | School groups, housing, employment by race | Education, Neighborhood Conditions, Racial Statistics. |
| 16 | Per-capita income by group | Racial Statistics; nominal changes not treated as real gains. |
| 17 | Business ownership and poverty counts | Racial Statistics; business inconsistencies flagged rather than visualized. |
| 18 | Poverty maps and lead | Neighborhood Conditions and Racial Statistics; source-hosted map layers and checked lead export. |
| 19 | Other health measures | Neighborhood Conditions; county/year/unit limitations explained. |
| 20 | BLS divider | No numerical evidence. |
| 21 | Metro workforce and industry | Employment; monthly metro figures separated from city ACS estimates. |
| 22 | Industry and occupation wages | Employment; revised industry values and mean/median correction. |
| 23 | Occupation wages | Employment; matched annual means and medians from OEWS. |
| 24 | Wage percentiles and occupation employment | Employment; interactive dot plot and job-count chart. |
| 25 | Occupation groups and location quotients | Employment; jobs-per-1,000 error corrected; unsupported quotient comparisons omitted. |
| 26 | Occupation takeaways | Employment; unsupported income-share and causal assertions not reproduced. |
| 27 | Opportunity Atlas divider | No numerical evidence. |
| 28 | Atlas observations | Neighborhood Conditions; exploratory ranges with explicit missing-filter warning. |
| 29 | Analysis divider | No numerical evidence. |
| 30 | Poverty, child poverty, median income | Neighborhood Conditions and Employment; original analysis topics retained. |
| 31 | Income distribution, attainment, employment | Employment and Education. |
| 32 | Housing and education | Neighborhood Conditions and Education. |
| 33 | School and racial disparities | Education and Racial Statistics. |
| 34 | Jobs and wage inequality | Employment; corrected mean versus median and year-over-year definition. |
| 35 | Occupations and Atlas household income | Employment and Neighborhood Conditions. |
| 36 | Atlas individual income and lead | Neighborhood Conditions. |
| 37 | Final synthesis | Questions and topic explanations; association is distinguished from causation. |

## Corrections and unresolved evidence

### Wage definitions

The paper labels $67,470 as the median. BLS identifies it as the mean; the median is $52,990. The selected occupation values in the paper also match means, so the site includes separate median and mean views.

### Jobs per 1,000

Home health and personal care aides account for 27.689 jobs per 1,000, or about 2.77%, not 27.7%. The paper’s broad claims about occupational income shares and top-1% income are not supported by its tables.

### Housing denominators

34,927 units are renter-occupied; 34,001 pay cash rent. The rent-to-income ratio covers 32,700 households with a computable ratio. Owner costs are not rent.

### Education and demographic labels

The 18.3% attainment category includes some college and associate’s degrees. The 20.5% White poverty estimate is White alone, not Hispanic or Latino. Hispanic origin can overlap with racial groups.

### School scores and graduation

Verified 2025 exports replace rounded paper scores, including the American Indian or Alaska Native ELA value of 41.7%. The district graduation rate is reproducible; the county comparison and dropout figure need a matching cohort and year.

### Revised industry data

June 2026 industry jobs use BLS’s September release. The source revises estimates, so some values differ from the August figures in the manuscript. Percent changes on the BLS page are year-over-year, not year-to-date. A final check of the dated columns on 30 September corrected the workforce counts: June has a labor force of 318,900, with 306,400 employed and 12,500 unemployed. The draft’s 318,300, 305,800, and 12,400 correspond to May.

### Poverty and population

The draft’s age table contains inconsistent counts, including the under-five entry and the age-65-and-older total. Those rows are not charted. National poverty values and city-versus-metro unemployment comparisons are withheld unless definitions and periods align.

### Opportunity Atlas

Approximate ranges are retained as exploratory manuscript observations. Missing filters and tract lists prevent a reproducible map or area average. Claims attributing the outcomes to nearby employers are not established by these observations.

### Health

Lead figures use the source’s 2025 threshold and tract data. The asthma description is a rate per 10,000, despite an inconsistent percent sign in the source headline; the paper’s 10% hospitalization claim is not reproduced. Mental-health figures are county-level and lack a recorded collection year in the manuscript.

### Other unverified claims

Business-ownership shares and the draft demographic population table require exact categories and denominators. The website does not assign identities to suppressed business data, infer causation from group comparisons, or treat hypotheses about government budgeting as established findings.

## Chart register

| Dataset | Manuscript pages | Review status | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Poverty rate and child poverty | 6, 30 | Paper transcription | [2](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2024.S1701?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Poverty by educational attainment | 7, 31 | Paper transcription | [2](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2024.S1701?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Third-grade proficiency by economic disadvantage | 14, 33 | Source checked | [10](https://pro.cnyvitals.org/profile/syracuse#scores-demog) |
| Third-grade proficiency by reported race and ethnicity | 14–15 | Source checked | [10](https://pro.cnyvitals.org/profile/syracuse#scores-demog) |
| Graduation: the district’s reported 2025 cohort | 14, 32 | Source checked | [11](https://pro.cnyvitals.org/profile/syracuse#graduation-rate) |
| Households without an internet subscription | 7–8 | Paper transcription | [9](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2024.S2801?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Household income distribution | 4–5, 11, 31 | Paper transcription | [3](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2024.S1901?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Median and mean household income | 11, 30–31 | Paper transcription | [3](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2024.S1901?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Poverty by work experience | 6–7, 31 | Paper transcription | [2](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2024.S1701?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Occupations held by employed city residents | 5 | Paper transcription | [8](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5Y2024.DP03?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Metro labor force: employment and unemployment | 21, 34 | Source checked | [5](https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ny_syracuse_msa.htm) |
| Employment by industry | 21–22, 34 | Source checked | [5](https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ny_syracuse_msa.htm) |
| The wage distribution | 24, 34 | Source checked | [18](https://data.bls.gov/oes/) |
| Wages across selected occupations | 22–26, 34–35 | Source checked | [18](https://data.bls.gov/oes/) |
| Employment in selected occupations | 24–26 | Source checked | [18](https://data.bls.gov/oes/) |
| Gross rent as a share of household income | 10, 32 | Paper transcription | [4](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5Y2024.DP04?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Homeownership and rental housing | 9–10, 15, 32 | Source checked | [4](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5Y2024.DP04?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Occupied and vacant housing | 9, 15 | Source checked | [4](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5Y2024.DP04?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Monthly gross rent | 9 | Paper transcription | [4](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5Y2024.DP04?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Value of owner-occupied homes | 10, 32 | Paper transcription | [4](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5Y2024.DP04?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Monthly owner costs by mortgage status | 8–9 | Paper transcription | [4](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5Y2024.DP04?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Poverty rates by race and Hispanic origin | 6, 33 | Paper transcription | [2](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2024.S1701?g=160XX00US3673000) |
| Per-capita income by reported group | 16, 33 | Paper transcription | [12](https://pro.cnyvitals.org/profile/syracuse#income-per-capita) |
| Unemployment and labor-force participation by group | 15 | Paper transcription | [13](https://pro.cnyvitals.org/profile/syracuse#unemployment-demog) |
| Residents below poverty: two reported endpoints | 17–18 | Paper transcription | [14](https://pro.cnyvitals.org/profile/syracuse#poverty-map) |
| Elevated blood lead levels in selected census tracts | 18, 36 | Source checked | [15](https://pro.cnyvitals.org/profile/syracuse#tract-lead-exposure) |
| Household income in adulthood: ranges noted in the paper | 28, 35 | Settings incomplete | [7](https://www.opportunityatlas.org/) |
| Individual income in adulthood: ranges noted in the paper | 28, 35–36 | Settings incomplete | [7](https://www.opportunityatlas.org/) |

## Source checks performed

- Census QuickFacts: Syracuse household income, per-capita income, homeownership, housing value, rent, household count, digital access, attainment, labor-force participation, and overall poverty. Census table metadata was also consulted to correct attainment and demographic labels. A direct Census data-table API request required an API key; values not otherwise reproduced remain labeled as manuscript transcriptions.
- CNYVitals: the public Syracuse profile, chart definitions, map-sharing links, and public CSV exports for school scores, graduation, and lead. The four downloaded exports are retained in `data/review/`.
- BLS: the official metropolitan Economy at a Glance table and Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics query results. The occupation table verified job counts, wage percentiles, and mean/median differences. A bulk-file request returned HTTP 403; the official browser query supplied the wage checks instead.
- Opportunity Insights: the Atlas methodology and cohort interpretation. The manuscript did not preserve sufficient filters and tract identifiers to reproduce its observations. No invented tract geography or fabricated choropleth was created.

## Interactivity and maintenance

The 28 chart datasets live in `assets/js/research-data.js`. Their tables are also present in the topic-page HTML for access without JavaScript. When changing a dataset, update its visible narrative and static table as well; run `scripts/check-site.cjs` to check the site’s structural integrity.

The charts provide keyboard-accessible values, sorting, applicable measure selectors, text filters for longer lists, expandable tables, and CSV downloads containing provenance. Downloads include the complete dataset, not only a filtered view. All percentage charts use a 0–100% axis; other chart scales start at zero. Opportunity Atlas intervals are manuscript ranges, not statistical confidence intervals.

Maps embed the public CNYVitals views. They require internet access and may change independently of this site. The site offers direct source links if the embeds are unavailable.

Numbered links open MLA-style source citations. The original manuscript’s source links were preserved where applicable; bibliographic details, source definitions, and access dates were normalized or expanded. The Sources tab groups entries by publisher. The original manuscript itself has not been edited.

Older JSON data and chart scripts are retained for recovery but are no longer loaded by the topic pages or the legacy Findings page. They are historical development artifacts, not the maintained evidence source. No deployment to GitHub Pages was performed.