Sentences with phrase «disproportionately by people of color»

The move comes amid a push to ease consequences, borne disproportionately by people of color, for possession of a drug that's legal in nine states.

Not exact matches

And because individual states could still prohibit marijuana locally, Booker's bill would also incentivize states to change their marijuana laws by withholding federal funding from any states that have enforced laws against the drug in ways that disproportionately affect low - income citizens and people of color.

Nixon said marijuana arrests disproportionately impact minorities and sparked controversy by saying in a Forbes interview that «people of color» must get first dibs at licenses for selling cannabis as a «form of reparations.»

And he noted that people of color are disproportionately affected by arrests for low - level offenses.

Researchers say the findings — which replicate and expand on the results of a similar study out of Portland — may help explain why people of color are disproportionately affected by fatal pedestrian crashes.

It's true that poor communities are disproportionately populated by people of color.

In 2016, major environmental crises that disproportionately affect people of color — such as the Flint water crisis and the fight over the location of the Dakota Access Pipeline — were undercovered by the national media for long periods, despite being reported by local and state media early on.

He and his co-authors developed a ranking system that showed which polluters were the most unfair — pumping the most toxic air into communities that were densely populated, low - income and disproportionately inhabited by people of color.

The results of a comprehensive study investigating the impacts of living near 378 coal plants in the United States have found that people of color and low - income communities are disproportionately more burdened by this pollution than any other segment of the population.

«People of color and low - income populations are still disproportionately impacted by pollution, and this landmark legislation has the potential to ensure safe and healthy communities for everyone,» Leslie Fields, our EJ director here at the Sierra Club, told me.