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The Network for Public Health Law Introduces Dataset of Enacted Legislation, Highlighting Key Trends in Racial Equity 

The Network for Public Health Law

The Network for Public Health Law has announced the launch of the Racial Equity Dataset, an interactive online tool that provides extensive data on enacted laws in the 2021 and 2022 legislative cycles related to furthering or hindering racial equity, across the 50 U.S. The interactive dataset may be explored on the Network’s website.

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

“So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas , vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank. Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems.

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Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress.

HEALTHBEAT

So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas , vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank. Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems.