How the Federal Income Tax System Can Worsen Racial Disparities

Svelte project code for a Tax Policy Center scrolly-telling explainer.

Project credits

Research: Aravind Boddupalli, Elaine Maag

Writing: Dana Ferrante

Editing: Alex Dallman

Design: Christina Baird

Data Visualization and Development: Mitchell Thorson

Public URL

Production: https://apps.urban.org/features/federal-income-tax-system-can-worsen-racial-disparities

Data notes

Source data files for the charts included in this project are in the data/source folder. There is a simple transformation script that formats some of this data for the front end in data/scripts/convert_data.R.

Developing

To run this project locally you'll need the following installed on your local computer:

• Node.js >= 18.0.0
• NPM

Once you have Node and NPM setup, open up the project directory in a terminal and install the project dependencies by running:

npm install

You should now be ready to start developing! Start a local server with:

npm run dev

Open your browser and visit http://localhost:5173 to see your project running.

Building for production

If you need to preview a production build locally, you can build your project with:

npm run build

This will generate a production-ready build of your project in the dist directory.

You can view the build you just created by running:

npm run preview

and opening your browser to: http://localhost:4173