3 Principles for an Antiracist, Equitable State Response to COVID-19 — and a Stronger Recovery
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Topic: Racial equity
Publisher: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Location: United States
Format: Article
Content Type: Miscellaneous
Publication Date: April 29, 2021
, , Topic: Racial equity
Publisher: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Location: United States
Format: Article
Content Type: Miscellaneous
Publication Date: April 29, 2021
COVID-19’s effects have underscored the ways that racism, bias, and discrimination are embedded in health, social, and economic systems. Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people are experiencing higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and death, and people of color are also overrepresented in jobs that are at higher infection risk and hardest hit economically. Shaping these outcomes are structural barriers like wealth and income disparities, inadequate access to health care, and racial discrimination built into the health system and labor market.
This article discusses three recommended principles for guiding policymakers in making equity efforts.
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