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Native America Calling
"casey lozar" Discussed on Native America Calling
"So this is serious stuff here. This information data there in New Zealand here in the states and it's obviously imperative that as native people, we protect that data in regards to its sovereignty. And how do you do that? Man, how do you protect some of this data that is so easily used in ways that don't necessarily benefit indigenous people? What's the process there for protecting that and ensuring that we have data sovereignty? Yeah, incredibly complicated and so the parts that are administered by the state and certainly in the New Zealand context we have quite a lot of leader managed the governance there. So administrative data collected by the state. We can have Marty governance or advisory boards in place to manage the use of that data. There's also a lot of should we say social and cultural license here. So we're the state gets it wrong. There can be a lot of very strong pushback both in the media and through, especially social media and the population. So I'm reasonably confident that we are making the right steps and the administrative space. We're it becomes a little bit more complicated for us as we have a data held by companies you have facebooks and googles about Marty or even some of the DNA companies. And lots of I don't know how we're going to overcome governance issues there. We've certainly talk of trying to put cultural cultural, what's the word for it? Like plant variety rights. So you can see where the part of Mahdi and the knowledge or the information has come from this sort of tags put on data. So it may not protect and provide data governance, but it provides an identifier for where Mario data is being used. And that once that identifier is more widely used that can potentially help us move to a better governance space. But it's incredibly difficult once it gets data that's in the private sector. Certainly, certainly, and you mentioned Facebook and the whole social media angle as well. And that's on the top of everybody's concerns right now with regard to privacy and data collection with regard to technology. So just a really, really interesting discussion. I want to thank our three guests today. Casey lozar, Alicia Murphy and Matt Ross Scrooge for what's been a really insightful conversation on information and data collection as it pertains to indigenous populations. Join us on native America calling in tomorrow as we talk about new music from native artists. Until then, I'm Sean spruce. Are you a Native American healthcare provider, recovery counselor, social worker, domestic and sexual abuse advocate or traditional healer working in Native American communities, doctor ruby Gibson will begin a 6 month advanced immersion in healing historical trauma. This online masterclass looks through the lens of a 7 generational recovery
Native America Calling
"casey lozar" Discussed on Native America Calling
"And one of the things, one of the major impacts of having low sample sizes is that we often are either completely left out of datasets or the sample size so low that we can't do precise calculations. For American Indian, Alaska natives and we have to do these use these methods where we're pairing 5 years of data just so we can get to a level of statistical significance or meaningful analysis. And as we all learned, for example, from the pandemic, having to look at 5 years of data versus the last month of data, that really shifts and changes how policymakers and tribal leaders might want to think about interventions to support tribal communities. So having the low numbers and just having low data quality where there may be data that exists makes it quite challenging to really understand where we're at as native people. It sounds like it does and again these challenges with regards to just such a small sample size, you mentioned 2% of the U.S. population is Native American. And Casey, I would imagine not only is it difficult to get this data challenging, but also when you're dealing with small sizes like that are the chances for errors higher as well with regarding to capturing the right data. They can be. They certainly can be. I think that's when you have a low end low sample size. Like I said, you have to sort of compare and compile years of data to be able to try to have precise precise calculations. And without it, you may not be telling the full story of the experiences of tribal people. And one of the things that we've done at the center for Indian country development is for the datasets where we know that there exists data for American Indian Alaska natives. We've pulled pulled a lot of the data into tools to make this data more accessible to the Indian country and the policymakers. A couple of things that examples that I can think of more recently at the center is we developed a labor market dashboard that is specific to American Indian Alaska natives. And you're on the dashboard, you can look at unemployment rates and labor participation rates and those types of things. But we've also had to Casey, do me a favor. Do me a favor. Hold that thought, because we are going to have to take a break, but I would love to learn more about this labor market dashboard. And some of these other data collection tools developed by the center for Indian country development. We're speaking now with Casey lozar, he is vice president of the Federal Reserve bank of Minneapolis and director for the center for Indian country development. We'll be right back.
Native America Calling
"casey lozar" Discussed on Native America Calling
"Native America calling. I'm Sean spruce. Information is key for governments and businesses to understand what people need from them. But most tribes and tribal businesses lack information, especially how it relates specifically to Native Americans. Some tribes, though, are working to improve their access to accurate and timely information. Among other things, it could help increase profits, influence policies from state and federal governments and improve grant and funding opportunities. The Federal Reserve bank of Minneapolis recently hosted an economic summit that focused on data collection as a way to promote economic prosperity in Indian country. Today on our show, we'll talk with experts about the importance of good information and how to bridge data gaps in native communities. Of course, we welcome listeners to the conversation is your tribe working to improve how information is collected in your community. What sort of information could benefit your tribe? Do you want us by calling one 809 9 6 two 8 four 8? You can also post on our social media. Our Twitter handle is one 8 zero zero 9 9 native. And folks today, we brought in three indigenous economists on our show and pretty slick group of guests we have. And I'd like to introduce our first guest. He is joining us from Helena Montana, Casey lozar. He's the vice president of the Federal Reserve bank of Minneapolis, and the director for the center for ended country development center for Indian country development. And he is an enrolled member of the confederated salish and kootenai tribes and a descendant of the fort peck assiniboine and Sioux tribes. Casey, you've been here on the show before. Welcome back to NEC. Wonderful. Thank you, Sean. Thanks for having us. You bet. Well, Casey, please start by helping us frame today's conversation. What exactly is the role of data collection in the field of economics? Well, Sean, I think the role of data collection and economics is particularly important and important when it's applied to sort of Indian country. As you know, in the country is complex. We have 574 tribes and millions of tribal members and those that are affiliated with tribes. So the economic experiences are really different by individual tribes and indigenous communities. Yet there are similarities across Chi sort of nationally and there are these regional experiences that are common, things like government structures and process of self determination and educational attainment and natural resources, et cetera and data associated with individual tribal communities and data harmonized across Indian country. It's just critical in telling an accurate economic narrative of the real-time experiences of our native nations and indigenous communities. And thinking about the economic narrative, data really serves as the words, the economic stories. So without high quality data, these narratives will not reflect the lived experiences of our people and they can't be used to inform and meaningful ways decisions by our tribal leaders by government leaders by business and tribal people. So collecting of data across different geographic units and ensuring data quality is just absolutely critical as sort of the engine of the field of economics and understanding our economic conditions and our economic opportunities and Indian country. Casey, you describe data as words that tell a story an economic story.
Native America Calling
"casey lozar" Discussed on Native America Calling
"For me, I was working again for Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. And on the Nintendo project and there was this opportunity that came up with the Federal Reserve bank because they had started a branch out of Minneapolis that an organization that was working on Indian country economic development. And so the center for Indian country, economic development. And so when I heard about that, the advertised for this branch position here in Montana. So part of the job would be the branch manager here at the Federal Reserve. But the other part of it would be working with the Indian center of economic development. And so I thought, this is perfect because it's getting back to those communities, tribal communities, and helping them develop their own businesses and their own economies. So the Federal Reserve had started this organization in order to provide really important data, as you know, data is hard to find an Indian country in order to help create some opportunities for funding in order to bring those issues to light. So I took that position knowing that it would bring me back to Montana and it would also bring me back to tribal communities and especially working with them on their community economic development. The Minneapolis Federal Reserve and that's just such a high profile facility there. I remember spending some time there and touring the building and there's a huge vault and just so much going on in terms of finance and just some of the protocols with regard to taking care of those assets and were you responsible for some of those other areas of the building as well, major? Yes, that was the dual responsibility of the job was I was the branch manager and had staff there at the Federal Reserve here in Helena. And at the same time, I got a chance to work with tribal leaders around the country because it's such a high profile position. So I'd be flying out to Minneapolis to work with a lot of the leaders there and then around the country to present some of the work that the Federal Reserve is doing. And they still have that organization and they have another individual another tribal member Casey lozar who now has that position that I used to have there.
The Indicator from Planet Money
"casey lozar" Discussed on The Indicator from Planet Money
"This is the indicator from planet money. I'm Stacy van Smith. And it has been a rough week in world news. But today, we're going to have a bit of a break. And we're going to look at the American jobs market because it's jobs Friday. It is jobs Friday. February's numbers are 678,000. That means 678,000 new people got hired last month, which is a solid speed up from January. I don't know what do you say darion? Air horn. If this is not an aha moment, I don't know what it is. Celebrate the wins while we have them. It's true. We gotta celebrate the wins. And every month we talk about that big jobs number, the number of jobs added to the economy. But on jobs Friday, the bureau of labor statistics, the BLS, releases a bunch of other measures about how the labor market is doing. Things like unemployment and wages. And you can look at some of the numbers by ethnicity and by race. But there has been one major category that you couldn't see by itself every month. The monthly employment rates for people who are American Indian or Alaska native, until just this year. Today on the show, we speak with an expert on American Indian and Alaska native data. Someone who got out ahead of the bureau of labor statistics and said, you know what? If you're not going to publish these numbers, we will do it ourselves. How he did it and what he thinks of this historic move by the BLS after the break. This message comes from NPR sponsor epson, just in time for the holidays is the epson eco tank cartridge free printer. Say goodbye to panicked freakouts, like when you're halfway through printing your holiday cards and those pricey ink cartridges run out of ink at the worst possible time, with epson eco tank, you can kiss expensive cartridges goodbye. This printer stores a lot of ink in its large tank, so you can just fill and chill, all season long. Now that's Mary. Learn more at epson dot com slash NPR. To learn more about American Indian and Alaskan native jobs numbers, we called up Casey lozar. Casey loza, thank you so much for joining the indicator. And can I just get you to introduce yourself? Test a score heart true netted to which will its quest XS sailors score say good morning. It's great to be with you today. My name is Casey lozar and I'm an enrolled member of the confederate solution kootenai tribes here in Montana and I'm vice president at the Minneapolis fed and director of the center for Indian country development. Casey loza was born on the flathead Indian reservation. This reservation stretches through mountains, forests, towns, and part of a huge Lake. It was here that as a kid, Casey found his first passion. At that point, I wanted to be a golf pro. A Gopher. Yep, career trajectory is certainly changed paths. I've already lessons from golf that you can apply in your work now. Yeah, no, the numbers. That is like perfect indicator advice. It's so true. But as Casey started to enter the world of economics, he noticed that the numbers for American Indians like him were often missing. Oftentimes in the country is discussed as asterisk nation. So an asterisk often in datasets where there isn't sufficient data to incorporate American Indian Alaska natives, oftentimes we're also considered the invisible minority. And this estrus in reports creates real problems. So take the government's American rescue plan last year, which gave a lot of money to different groups all across America to tired us over the recession. And you could imagine that knowing where in the country the most jobs were lost would be really helpful for directing where that funding might make the most difference. Without data, it's like training for a golf tournament without recording any of your scores. If you're not in the numbers, often you're forgotten. Casey says there are a lot of reasons for the missing data for those asterisks. One of them is that many American Indians and Alaska natives live in rural areas and might not have access to reliable Wi-Fi to reply to online surveys. Also, some may move around to different extended family homes, and that could make repeat surveying really hard. But maybe the biggest reason for these estrus is what's called a small sample size. Now there are about 10 million American Indian and Alaska native people in the U.S., but it's a small part of the American population overall. So like in the survey that is used on jobs Friday out of 60,000 surveyed households, you might only get like a hundred people actually unemployed in that demographic category. And that means that numbers like unemployment rates can be volatile. They can bounce up and down every month, just have randomness. Like one month, you might just happen to survey people in an era with fewer jobs, just out of chance. Not because the trend was actually getting worse. The bureau of labor statistics said for this reason, it did not include a monthly measure of American Indian and Alaskan natives in their database, just the annual numbers. These respondents, they said, make up only 1% of the labor force in the U.S.. And this was really frustrating for Casey. The jobs report is one of the most important sources of information about our economy and about our labor market. So not having sufficient data of American Indian Alaska natives, it handcuffs policymakers and tribal leaders to understand right now whereas their labor market and Casey use this particular frustration very well because that Minneapolis fed center for Indian country development has a leadership council, a group of native experts and leaders across the country. They provide a lot of guidance on the data that exists and important research projects or unanswered questions and Indian country that would be meaningful to tribal communities. Giving indigenous groups more of a say in what data is collected and how that data is used is a step towards what's sometimes called data sovereignty. And the message case he was hearing was that American Indian and Alaska native job market statistics needed to be more visible. Casey and his team at the fed knew that the government did collect this data. It was available deep inside the databases. And they just needed to take it out and make some adjustments and present it in a way that was more accessible to the general public. So Casey and his team turned the government's raw monthly data into three month averages. This instantly boosted the sample sizes by three, and then they made a simple interactive web page. A dashboard, a graphs that anyone could look at to see American Indian and Alaskan native labor force participation, employment, and unemployment. They launched it last year. It's a beautiful little dashboard. It is beautiful. We love that you're calling it beautiful. Yeah, we're quite proud of it. Certainly this has been helpful as we've been closely following the economic recovery of our tribal communities. And, like in the rest of America, there has been a huge labor market recovery in tribal communities. In the middle of 2020, nearly one in 5 American Indians or Alaska natives in the job market were unemployed. Now it's down to one in 13. Just over 7%. That is a huge recovery. But it is still double the unemployment rate of the general U.S. population. What are the kind of drivers of that rough doubling of unemployment rates compared to the general population? Well, I think there's a number of factors. The job opportunities are probably fewer in many of our tribal communities. The other factor is when you think about sort of the effects of the pandemic, a lot of American Indian Alaska native workers are concentrated in the service sector. And the service sector certainly was hit, particularly hard in the pandemic. And the story varies a lot, depending on where in the country you're looking. The urban population tends to be more employed, for instance, than the rural population. And of course, it varies across reservations. So, thanks to Casey's website, you can break down.