Nine percent of Angelenos live in census tracts with the highest combined rate of pollution and poverty across the state. One in three of those Angelenos live in South Los Angeles.
South L.A.’s crisis of unemployment and the proliferation of low-wage, temporary work only exacerbate poor health outcomes for our community’s largely Black, Latino and immigrant population. Pollution, in conjunction with South L.A.’s crisis of unemployment and the proliferation of low-wage, temporary work only exacerbate poor health outcomes for our community’s largely Black, Latino and immigrant population. For over a decade, SCOPE has partnered with community-based organizations, labor unions, and environmental justice advocates to ensure that targeted public investment creates a new economy for South L.A.─an economy that supports the growth of jobs in sustainable industries, provides equitable services and creates a pathway to the middle class. In our fight for a new economy, we aim to push forward job creation and equitable investment that is community-led and responds to the historical health and environmental disparities impacting low-income communities of color.
