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Surveillance and health, and in the logistics industry ( storage and delivery). Country Email List These are precisely the sectors that have the highest percentages of low-wage minority workers, recent immigrants, and casual employees. In the United States, nearly half of these workers are Black, Latino, or Asian, and unless they belong to a union, they are unlikely to have adequate health Country Email List insurance (or at all). Many have gone long periods without treatment for conditions that would have been routinely treated had they had health insurance, and thus suffer from chronic conditions such Country Email List as asthma and diabetes.