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New York’s plan to become a fairer city after COVID-19
May 29, 2020
New York City is looking to recover from COVID-19 by following the UN's Sustainable Development Goals as a roadmap for success. The Global Goals are 17 objectives set by the United Nations to achieve a better and more sustainable world by 2030. They include zero poverty, zero hunger, good health and well-being, quality education, and gender equality.
COVID-19 has done something we didn’t quite expect: It’s forced us to see what some want to ignore or forget about society’s injustices. Here in New York City, COVID-19 has thrown the inequalities that plague our communities into sharp relief.
In addition to shuttering businesses and schools, with tens of thousands New Yorkers in need of support for food and shelter, the pandemic has exposed troubling disparities in our health care system.
One study by the NYU Furman Center noted, for example, that “the mortality rate among New York City’s Hispanic and Black population is also comparatively high, reaching 22.8 and 19.8 [per 100,000 people], respectively. White and Asian populations have the lowest death rates due to COVID-19 (10.2 and 8.4, respectively).”
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