Maryland: “Library Report Shows Racial Inequities Among Education, Health and Other Factors Within Howard County”
From Baltimore Fishbowl:
Communities in the state, one of the top places to live in the country, and a great place to rais a family.
But a new report by the county’s library system finds racial inequities in Howard County’s education, healthcare, housing, economics, and the legal systems.
Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic residents were more likely to fare worse than non-Hispanic white residents in Howard County, according to the Howard County Library System’s “Inequity Within: Issues of Inequity Across Communities” report.
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The Howard County Library System’s Racial Equity Alliance, comprised of community members and library partners, is working to disseminate the report.
“Alliance members will also take the report back to their groups and communities to determine their next steps,” said library spokesperson Jamie Preto Hepworth.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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