Last year,Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, an interactive map that monitors data points such as income, asthma rates, and wildfire risk with the aim of determining and prioritizing the most disadvantaged communities for funding. However, race and ethnicity are not ...
Rural disadvantaged communities in California experience a disproportionate share of the most pressing social, environmental, and economic challenges. These challenges co-occur creating a compounding effect that leads to structural conditions of extreme inequity that are more complex than just the sum of ...
PM2.5 is an air pollutant that is widely associated with adverse health effects, and which tends to be disproportionately located near low-income communities and communities of color. We applied a community-engaged research approach to assess the distrib
Many are located in poor communities, close to the families they seek to lift out of poverty with programs that include preschool as well as services to infants and toddlers that include home visits. Over the course of a year, as children come and go, t...