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LA Focus: Smallwood-Cuevas Advocates for Black Workers in the Billions Set Aside for Green Infrastructure
With more than a quarter of our state’s residents living at or near the poverty line, California is in a poverty crisis. This reality is even more severe for Black workers. Last summer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 90% of unemployed U.S. citizens are Black Americans. Despite being less than 10% of the population in Los Angeles, Black people comprise over a third of all unhoused residents in the county.