EiJ Concept: Equity
A critical exploration of the concept of equity.
A critical exploration of the concept of equity.
Enviornmental injustice researcher's program pages.
Digital collection of resources for understanding and using critical concepts to characterize and respond to environmental injustice.
Collections of readings that examine and conceptualize environmental injustice.
A digital collection of material for field activities with LEAN and the community members of Reserve LA/St John the Baptist Parish.
The author used the census to accurately make the statistics needed to back up the main argument.
The article addresses the public health by showing that people can not afford daily necessities such as hosptial bills and things of that nature.
To control this is to create more job oppurtunities for black and low-income families.
The main point was to show the reader that people are in the poverty zone in Newark due to the lack of jobs. It is supported through statistics. The poverty rate increases as the unemployment rate increases and jobs decrease.
"Child poverty is becoming more concentrated."
"It is no coincidence that the County’s municipalities with the highest child poverty rates are one and the same as the County’s majority-black municipalities. Sixty-three percent of poor families in high child-poverty cities are black."