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The distance between schools and the closest hog facilities ranged from 0.2 to 42 miles.  Thirty percent of schools were within 3 miles of at least one industrial hog facility.

Low-income schools in communities of color had industrial hog facilities within 3 miles more often than schools in mostly white and high-income communities.  As distance from the nearest hog facility increased, so did white enrollment and income level of the school.

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