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Building Health Equity: From Resources to Community Action
by Elizabeth Hartig - Project Associate, Planning and Community Health Center Research shows that health equity is critical to building a happy, prosperous nation, but that doesn’t mean a one-size-fits-all approach is the answer. Join the...
Study Reveals Race Plays Pivotal Role In How States Dole Out Welfare Benefits
By Tanasia Kenney The amount of cash welfare assistance available to families in poverty and the terms under which they can receive it largely depend on where they live, according to a recent report by the Urban Institute. The report,...
Environmental Racism Continues to Deny Black People a Chance for a Healthy Community
By Danielle Dorsey There’s a reason why Black communities are most often the hosts for waste and sewage facilities, power plants and land fills. For years, our government got away with dumping in and degrading the environment of urban areas, a...
More Than 70 Percent of Gunshot Victims in Miami Are Black, Study Finds
By Tim Elfrink Florida's gun control debates tend to go like this: NRA-backed GOP politicians propose rules to allow more guns in more places and to decrease accountability for how those guns are used. Opponents bring up actual evidence, like the...
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...