Category: minorities
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Heatwave deaths expose air conditioning crisis: Elderly and minorities most at risk
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Mexican farmworker Avelino Vasquez Navarro did not have air conditioning in the mobile home he died in last month in Washington state when temperatures soared into the hundreds of degrees. For the past 12 years, the 61-year-old has spent most of the year working near Pasco, Wash., sending money to…