U.S. News & World Report: Robert Fischer, associate professor and co-director of the Center on Poverty and Community Development at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed a new study that found young Black children living in racially segregated U.S. neighborhoods are at heightened risk of potentially brain-damaging lead exposure.
鈥淭his study is definitely confirming what smaller studies have indicated,鈥� said Fischer, who was not involved in the latest research. 鈥淚t's not just random chance that Black children are more exposed to lead.鈥�