Jennifer McPartland, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist with the Health Program. Prominent incidences of environmental injustice in the public eye are typically place-based — from lead-contaminated tap water in Flint, Michigan to smokestacks lining Cancer Alley in Louisiana. For decades, communities of color and low income communities have confronted long-standing discriminatory […]
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The state has agreed to provide tens of millions of dollars to coalitions that are proposing to improve health care on the South and West sides. A South Side group, a coalition of big and small hospitals and health clinics, will receive approximately $26 million from a state fund created […]