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Stopping Trump’s Toxic Budget: The Federal Budget Process and Actions We Can Take
Thursday, May 18 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (PST) #PublicHealthAwakened Webinar Series Join Public Health Awakened for a webinar on understanding the federal budget process. We expect the Trump administration's budget proposal to come out by the...
MIT Economist: While the White, Wealthy Few Are Thriving, the Rest of America Is Living In a Third World Nation
By David Love Much these days is said of income inequality in the U.S., of the gaping, ever-expanding chasm that separates the haves from the have nots, the rich from the poor, the 1 percent from everyone else. This, in the richest nation in the...
Poverty, Compounded
By Gillian B. White It’s true that poverty affects people of all races, genders, and nationalities, but it’s also true that poverty—especially deep, persistent, intergenerational poverty—plagues some groups more than others. That’s...
How Mass Incarceration Literally Makes Children Sick
By Willie Burnley Jr. There has long been research suggesting that incarceration has negative health consequences for the incarcerated, but a new study from British medical journal The Lancet indicates that incarceration can negatively impact the...
A racist stereotype is shattered: Study finds white youth are more likely to abuse hard drugs than black youth
By Robin Scheralternet By now we can all agree that the real target of Reagan’s enduring war on drugs was never drugs, it was African Americans. But if rising incarceration rates among black youth or the utter failure to curtail drug use is not...
Racial Disparities in School Suspensions
By Tom Loveless The 2017 Brown Center Report (BCR) on American Education was released this week, and one of the report’s studies focuses on out-of-school suspensions. For the past several years, state education leaders in California have...
Get Answers to Culture of Health Leaders Program FAQs
Check out the CoHL FAQ page for answers to program questions such as: "Do I have to have a college degree to participate in the program?" or "How much time will the program require each...
‘Sundown towns’: Midwest confronts its complicated racial legacy
By Jack Shuler March 27, 2017 Utica, Ohio—On Election Day, when Chris Cooper walked into his usual precinct to vote, a greeter asked him, “Do you live in this town?” The question was perhaps innocent. After all, there aren’t many...
From the Archives: Remembering Cesar Chavez
By Scott Harrison (Los Angeles Times) March 31 is Cesar Chavez's birthday and a holiday in California, Colorado and Texas. When Chavez died on April 23, 1993, staff writer George Ramos wrote The Times obituary published the next morning. He...
The hidden costs of segregation
By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN (CNN) - It's pretty well established that racial segregation limits access to jobs, education, public services and other resources for people in high-poverty neighborhoods. But how does economic and racial...