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iStockphoto A new report from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute shows Utah’s minority populations are more likely than whites to have less income and wealth and higher rates of poverty and chronic diseases.
After a year marked by a pandemic and renewed calls for racial justice around the country, state leaders in Utah have acknowledged widespread racial, ethnic and gender disparities exist and are making pledges to address them.
In his One Utah Roadmap, Gov. Spencer Cox,
committed to “creating initiatives that acknowledge this history of our state and nation [and] the disproportionate outcomes across systems.” Former Gov. Gary Herbert made a
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Robert Gehrke.
| Feb. 14, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
Back in the spring and well into 2020, the coronavirus was taking a dramatically disproportionate toll on Utah’s racial and ethnic minority communities.
In some weeks, more than half of the new cases were detected in the Hispanic and Latino community, even though they make up about 14% of the state’s population. In June, a Latino Utahn was seven times as likely to contract the virus as a white resident, while Pacific Islander and Black residents were five times and three times more likely to get the virus.
The reasons were not a mystery. These Utahns were more likely to work in essential services, often lived in multi-generational homes and had less access to health care. And they paid a terrible price.