In neglected communities such as South Los Angeles, freeways crisscrossing neighborhoods are choking residents with harmful pollution.
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My experience with our bad air started with what felt like a bad cold. It was a virus from which I never fully recovered. The dry and gritty air weighed on my chest. The heaviness prevented me from getting a full breath of air. As someone who works with children at a school located near a freeway in a highly trafficked area, I see youth impacted even more. New research shows thatOur community lacks basic resources to be healthy and succeed – like clean air and food, since our community is also a food desert. I’m only 36, and I didn’t understand at first why someone as young as myself would need to use an inhaler.
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