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COUNTLESS SCIENTIFIC STUDIES HAVE CONSISTENTY SHOWED A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POVERTY AND POOR HEALTH AND PREMATURE DEATH INDEPENDENT OF ANY OTHER FACTORS OR INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIORS; AND POOR SCHOOLS, POLLUTING INDUSTRIES, SUBSTANDARD HOUSING, HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT AND OTHER DISPARITIES
PLACE MATTERS: ENSURING OPPORTUNITIES FOR GOOD HEALTH FOR ALL JCPEC, SEPTEMBER 1012 San Joaquin Valley, California: Focusing on ramifications of environmental degradation Lowest life expectancy in zip codes with lowest income and largest percentage of Hispanic residents. Premature deaths 2X that of highest income zip codes
PLACE MATTERS: ENSURING OPPORTUNITIES FOR GOOD HEALTH FOR ALL JCPEC, SEPTEMBER 1012 New Orleans:
Life expectancy in the poorest zip code is 25.5 years lower than life expectancy in zip code with the lowest amount of poverty. African Americans live disproportionately in those areas
PLACE MATTERS: ENSURING OPPORTUNITIES FOR GOOD HEALTH FOR ALL JCPEC, SEPTEMBER 1012
Cook County, Illinois: Looking at access to healthy foods
At least 20% of residents living in poverty for 5 decades Income over 53,000 life expectancy 14 years longer than those with under 25,000 With least access to chain supermarkets have average life expectancy 11 years shorter than those who do. Premature death for African Americans nearly 2.5X that of White residents
111th and 112th Congress Themed: Creating Pathways Out Of Poverty H. Con. Res.198 - Expressing the sense of Congress that poverty should be cut in half in 10 years. 112th Congress H.R. 3300 Half in Ten Act of 2011 (Lee) Establishment of the Out Of Poverty Caucus Lee/McDermott)
CBC Poverty and the Economy Task Force Spurred formation of a Dem Caucus Anti-Poverty Task Force The 10/20/30 initiative (Clyburn)
First applied in ARRA remains a priority for all funds and programs
10/20/30
474 counties where 20 percent or more of the population has been living below the poverty line for the last 30 years. They lack access to quality schools, affordable quality health care and adequate job opportunities. In 2009, these counties were represented by 43 Democrats and 84 Republicans in the Congress. Democrats represented 149 of them, with a total population of 8.8 million; Republicans 311, with a total population of 8.3 million; and 14, with a total population of 5. 3 million, were split between Republicans and Democrats.
IMPACT
OF THE SEQUESTER
SEQUESTRATION WOULD REDUCE WIC FUNDING BY $353 MILLION, RESULTING IN OVER 600,000 LOW INCOME, NUTRITIONALLY AT RISK, PREGNANT, POSTPARTUM AND BREASTFEEDING WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN LOSING SERVICES
More than nine million people are estimated to live in neighborhoods with commercial hazardous waste facilities, including more than 5.1 million people of color. Over half of residents (56%) of communities with commercial hazardous waste facilities are people of color. African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos and Asians/Pacific Islanders 1.7, 2.3, and 1.8 times more likely than whites to live in these neighborhoods, respectively. More than two - thirds of residents of neighborhoods with clustered facilities are people of color.
Eliminate or significantly reduce air quality data systems. Americans that have or care for individuals with respiratory and cardiac health issues rely on AIRNow for information about when to take action to avoid health impacts from air pollution. EPA would eliminate upgrades for the Emissions Inventory and Air Quality Systemsthe Agency would only fund operations for these systems. Without this monitoring data, future improvements in air quality would be hampered or delayed. (SA)
EJ IMPACTS OF SEQUESTRATION
Limit EPAs capacity to identify toxic air emissions, water discharges, and other sources of pollution that directly affect public health and the environment. (SA) Hinder tribal governments ability to ensure clean air and clean and safe water by cutting EPA tribal funding. This funding supports environmental protection for 566 tribes on 70 million acres of tribal lands. (SA) Reducing funding to understand the effect of nanomaterials on human health and dispose of rare earth minerals used in electronic, thereby limiting innovation and manufacturing opportunities with these materials in the US. (SA)
Discontinue funding for two joint EPA/NIH Centers of Excellence for Childrens Health Research. These centers are providing a greater understanding of how the environment impacts todays most pressing childrens health challenges, including asthma, autism, attention deficit disorder, neurodevelopmental deficits, childhood leukemia, diabetes, and obesity. Eliminating funding would negatively impact graduate students and faculty who would have to look for new funding to keep their research going and ultimately slow down the pace of scientific research in these important public health areas. (SA)
The Committee will continue to monitor international negotiations on efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions in connection with concerns about global climate change. In addition, the Committee will examine the EPAs efforts to regulate domestic greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act based on its endangerment finding. The Committee will consider whether such agreements and regulatory efforts are scientifically well grounded.
The Committee will continue to review significant rulemakings under the Clean Air Act and the potential economic and job impacts of those rulemakings on the energy, manufacturing and construction industries and other critical sectors of the U.S. economy, as well as any public health and environmental benefits of the regulations. The Committees review will include oversight of the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) decisions, strategies and actions
Its the people of color who are disproportionately affected by bad food, bad air, and bad water. People of color are also disproportionately unable to escape the negative consequences of global warming. Look at Hurricane Katrina. People of color need equal protection from the worst environmental disasters and equal access to the best environmental technologies. We should be speaking out ourselves on these issues, because we are going to be hit first and hardest by everything negative, and we will benefit last and least from everything positive unless everybody works to solve this problem.
-- Van Jones
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SPRING HEALTH BRAINTRUST HEALTH EQUITY, HEALTH CARE QUALITY AND THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: THE NEXT CHAPTER
April 22, 23, 2013 RITZ CARLTON, DC
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AND
THANK YOU
CONGRESSWOMAN DONNA M. CHRISTENSEN
www.donnachristensen.house.gov