Personal Review Of Educational Inequality: Golash-Boza

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Health inequalities remind me of educational inequality. They are both issues that go unnoticed by the media too often. Health is something that impacts our lives greatly. I have seen the difference first hand. In Golash-Boza, we see a graph on page 346, it shows that more people of color in an area the more hazardous waste facilities we see. This resonated with me. Personally, I live in a low socioeconomic neighborhood, but grew up in a middle class neighborhood. Around a year or so ago. I was walking and a news outlet was interviewing people, they had found an empty lot full of hazardous waste. It was in the middle of a neighborhood, hispanic kids are growing up in that area. To this day they have done very little to clean that lot up. Looking

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