1. Differences in health
outcomes that are systematic,
avoidable and unjust.

2. Monica

5. Are particular groups
disproportionately impacted
by the issues?

6. Source: CDC. http://www.cdc.gov/VitalSigns/Asthma/index.html
Natural Resources Defense Council. http://www.nrdc.org/health/kids/ocar/chap3.asp
In 2009, 1 in 12 people in the U.S. had asthma,
yet 1 in 9 blacks of all ages and about
1 in 6 black children were impacted by asthma.

7. Source: CDC. http://www.cdc.gov/VitalSigns/Asthma/index.html
Natural Resources Defense Council. http://www.nrdc.org/health/kids/ocar/chap3.asp
In the 90s, the lead level above the CDC's
concern was more than double for black
children than for white children.

8. People of color make up the majority, 56%, of
Americans living in neighborhoods within two miles of
commercial hazardous waste facilities.
Source: Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States. CERD Working Group on
Health and Environmental Health Report on Healthcare . January 2008.

9. 61.3% of African American children, 67.7%
of Asian American children and 69.2% of
Latino children, live in areas that exceed air-
quality standards for ozone, compared with
50.8% of white children.
Source: Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States. CERD Working Group on
Health and Environmental Health Report on Healthcare . January 2008.

10. 12% of American Indian and Alaska
Native homes (compared with 1% of all
U.S. homes) lack safe and adequate water
supply and waste disposal facilities.
Source: Danger Zones: Ozone Air Pollution and Our Children.
American Lung Association. 1995.

11. Blacks are 4 times more likely to live
in a food desert than whites
FOOD DESERTS Source: The Contextual Effect of the Local
Food Environment on Residents’ Diets: The
Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study,
Am. J. Pub. Health. 2002.

12. 37.9 % of black children under 12 and
33.8% of Latinos, compared with 12.3%
of white children, lived in poverty in 2012,
according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau.http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/#cps

13. The national home ownership rate is
65.5%. As of 2008, 74.9% of whites owned
homes, compared with 59.1% of Asians,
48.9% of Latinos and 47.5% of Blacks.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau.http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/qtr413/q413press.pdf

14. How have invisible policies
and systems shaped
Monica’s experience?

15. Between 1930-1950, three
out of five homes purchased
in the United States were
financed by FHA, yet
less than 2% of the FHA
loans were made to
non-white home buyers.
Source: Beth J. Leif & Susan Goering, The Implementation of the Federal Mandate for Fair Housing, in DIVIDED
NEIGHBORHOODS: CHANGING PATTERNS OF RACIAL SEGREGATION 227, 229 (Gary A. Tobin ed., 1987).

16. In 2006, at the height of the housing boom,
Black and Latino families making more than
$200,000 a year were more likely on average
to be given a subprime loan than a white
family making less than $30,000 a year.
Source: Faber, Jacob. Racial Dynamics of Subprime Mortgage Lending at the Peak.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs10.1080/10511482.2013.771788?journalCode=rhpd20#.UxZYnPmwLMo

17. From 2005 to 2009, the
median wealth
holdings on households
of color declined far
more than for whites,
resulting in the largest
wealth gaps in 25 years.
Source: Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics.
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/07/26/wealth-gaps-rise-to-record-highs-between-whites-blacks-hispanics/
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18. What kinds of investments
do communities need to get
to racially equitable solutions
that work for everyone?

19. HEALTH IN ALL POLICIES

20. INVESTMENTS IN PUBLIC
TRANSPORTATION

21. RAISINGTHE MINIMUM WAGE

22. What can we start doing now?

23. ① Start where communities of color are.

24. ① Start where communities of color.
② Address tensions.

25. ① Start where communities of color are.
② Address tensions.
③ Build trust.

26. ① Start where communities of color are.
② Address tensions.
③ Build trust.
④ Start with community priorities.

27. ① Start where communities of color are.
② Address tensions.
③ Build trust.
④ Start with community priorities.
⑤ Engage strong constituency-based institutions.

28. ① Start where communities of color are.
② Address tensions.
③ Build trust.
④ Start with community priorities.
⑤ Engage strong constituency-based institutions.