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La Tonya Johnson: “Milwaukee has a lower life expectancy for blacks than the…”

Featuring: La Tonya Johnson, Democratic | Wisconsin Senate, District 6

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State of Black Wisconsin 2026

Published | Video Starts at 39:25

But number six for us is diabetes. Number seven for them, suicide. Us, chronic lower respiratory disease. You can see that based on our races, those 10 things can differ dramatically. Now, Milwaukee has a lower life expectancy for blacks than the rest of Wisconsin for the same population. Lower life expectancy is more prevalent in neighborhoods with high concentrations of unstable housing, Poverty, poverty and lack of preventive health care such as primary care, doctors and health care facilities. (39:25–39:32)

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Asserts that black residents in Milwaukee have a lower life expectancy than black residents in the rest of Wisconsin.

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