'When a public health crisis runs headlong into systemic inequities in wages, wealth, and health care, the result is mass death among those the system is rigged against.'
Using this measure, they found that COVID-19 death rates in poorer U.S. counties were nearly double those wealthier counties.
These counties include 30 million Americans of every color. Latinx Americans make up about a quarter of their population, while their Black population is about double the national average. What's more, these counties are home to nearly 30 percent of all Indigenous people in the United States. "The findings of this report reveal intentional decisions to not focus on the poor," summed up Reverend WIlliam Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign."We cannot say that this is because of individual choices or behaviors."
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