Jessika Ziglar/04-25-08 4:16pm/Pollution
A new study found that although air quality is within required level, inner-city kids with asthma aren't getting any relief.
The main culprit for reducing lung function in these children aged 5-12 in major cities across the US seems to be nitrous dioxide and fine particulates. Car admissions are a major source of nitrous dioxide and are probably contributed to this problem the most.
Pollution-related asthma often keeps these low-income, inner-city youth from attending school. The Inner City Asthma Study Group researchers suggest that new plans need to be made to reduce the exposure of these children to air pollution.
This seems like yet another way in which the poor are kept poor. If children who live in the worst economic and environmental positions miss school due to their asthma, they are simply getting further behind in their education. Education is often the only hope for the cycle of poverty to be broken, and this is being taken from these children thanks in part to air pollution.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042501896.html
2 comments:
Yea I can back this article up because currently I am an infant teacher at a local Greensboro daycare and everyday since the seasons have changed some of the children have been suffering dramatically. Hopefully things will get better soon.
Are they just figuring this out now??
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