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Environmental Right-To-Know and the Transmutations of Law

Law does more than codify, regulate, and control; it also catalyzes and transmutes, provoking cascading social and cultural effects, particularly when the force of law is informational.

SfAA Panel: Beyond Environmental Injustice

Essay for the double-panel "Beyond Environmental Injustice", 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 22-27, 2021.

Repertoires of Knowledge in Times of Pandemic: Insight on the Fridays for Future Movement in Mexico (Mariana Arjona Soberón)

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Median Household Income by Race

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What vulnerabilities affect the community?

Some vulnerabilities blacks in Newark face are health issues like blood lead poisoning because they cannot afford to solve the issue.

This study was conducted by using testing data from 4th-grade students from North Carolina, and comparing if they matched high blood lead levels. This method was conducted in seven counties through normal statistical methods.

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Unemployment Rate - Newark

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How are agencies/companies helping to minimize this hazard.

In order to allow jobs for Newark locals, a report from the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice called "Bridging the Two Americas: Employment and Economic Opportunity in Newark and Beyond" addresses the solutions for this problem. They call for more monitoring and enforcement of local hiring requirements under the first source ordinance.