U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden this week called the death of George Floyd in police custody a “wake-up call” for the country. Biden’s address comes a day after Trump threatened to mobilize the U.S. military to keep the peace across the country, following days of violent protests and minutes after federal police charged a crowd of peaceful demonstrators to clear a path for a presidential photo-op.
But the causes of the unrest obviously go much deeper than the most recent police brutality that was caught on a smartphone camera by passersby. Income inequality has grown to its highest level in 50 years. Indeed, research suggests that racial inequality runs through education, health care, and a major report released last year further concluded that race and poverty are key determinants of who even has access to clean water and sanitation.
Black and Latino people in New York City are dying at twice the rate of Caucasians, data released last month by the City of New York showed. Hispanic residents were dying at a rate of 21.3 per 100,000, black and African-American people were dying at a rate of 23.1 per 100,000, other non-Hispanic/Latino, non-white races were dying at a rate of 40.2 per 100,000. Meanwhile, white people were dying at a rate of 15.7 per 100,000 and Asians at a rate of 9.1 per 100,000.
“Last year, we assembled key health equity leaders — including the National Minority Quality Forum, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, and the National Black Nurses Association — for a convening led by the Better Medicare Alliance to discuss these systemic challenges and to find a way forward,” they wrote in a recent op-ed for MarketWatch.
‘Closing the water access gap’ More than 2 million people in the U.S. lack running water and basic indoor plumbing, according to this report by the human-rights nonprofit DigDeep and the nonprofit U.S. Water Alliance. This is all the more concerning during a pandemic. “A hundred years ago, water-borne illnesses such as cholera were a leading cause of death in the United States.
Native Americans are 19 times more likely to lack indoor plumbing than their white counterparts, putting them in the worst spot of any group, and African-American and Latinx households lack indoor plumbing at almost twice the rate of white households, the report found.
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