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Children of color and from low-income families in Ohio and across the nation are not only exposed to more dangerous toxic chemicals including lead, tailpipe and other air pollution, plastics and pesticides; they also experience disproportionate harm to brain development compared to their white and higher income peers, according to a new report. Devon Payne-Sturges, associate professor of environmental health at the University of Maryland and the report s co-author, said five decades of data show poverty exacerbates the effect of pollution. "Studies have found that the combined experience, say, of exposure to lead in the environment and being from an impoverished community, or a low-income family actually worsened the negative cognitive impacts," Payne-Sturges reported. " .

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