Overview: Although there are more than 10 million swimming pools nationwide, almost 40 million adults can’t swim. The racial disparities are stark: 36% of Black adults report not knowing how to swim, compared to 15% of adults overall. Only 37% of Black people in the U.S. have taken swimming lessons.

(WIB) – It’s a persistent, deadly public health issue that’s gotten worse in recent years: the drowning rate for Black Americans, already disproportionately high, has surged since 2019. Nearly 40% of Black adults say they don’t know how to swim, while Black adolescents are three times more likely to die by drowning than their white peers.

Yet as pools across the country open for the summer, the Black community could be at even higher risk for drownings. That’s because the Trump administration

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