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Related: About this forumThere are too many Flints -By Hillary Clinton
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/there-are-too-many-flints<snip>
Whats happening in Flint today happened 10 years ago in predominantly low-income, African-American and Latino areas of Washington, D.C. Lead leached into the water there for four years. In high-risk neighborhoods, the number of toddlers and infants with lead poisoning more than doubled.
In Baltimore, families have received settlements for the lifelong health effects of childhood lead poisoning. And now private companies are going around getting people, many of whom are permanently disabled, to sign away hundreds of thousands of dollars in future payments in exchange for a few thousand dollars right away. Its an outright abuse of vulnerable people who have been hurt too many times already.
Near San Francisco, where housing prices have skyrocketed, many low-income families live in more-affordable Richmond, California. Richmond is 26 percent African-American and 40 percent Latino, and the housing prices are low for a reasonbecause the city is surrounded by oil refineries, chemical companies and eight Superfund sites. Its no surprise that the city has the highest hospitalization rate for asthma in all of Contra Costa County.
Twenty seven schools are within 1 mile of a high-risk chemical facility in the Manchester neighborhood of Houston a neighborhood that is 85 percent Latino. In Manchester, rates of childhood leukemia, asthma and bronchitis are all above average. The children who go to public schools there are 56 percent more likely to get leukemia than kids who live 10 miles away.
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There are too many Flints -By Hillary Clinton (Original Post)
Starry Messenger
Jan 2016
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greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)1. Great post and outstanding artical!
Thanks for posting!
Kath1
(4,309 posts)2. Thank you!
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)3. Good read
and... "Editors note: This is an op-ed and should not be taken as an endorsement of Hillary Clintons candidacy or views. MSNBC has reached out to Bernie Sanderss campaign to see if he too wishes to contribute an op-ed."
Should be start a pool to bet on how many times "percent" comes up in case he does?
Just saying...
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)6. I'll be curious if he even does it, honestly.
pandr32
(11,572 posts)7. If he does the main point will be to try to claim he was first to bring up the crisis (to somebody)
Bernie loves to say he was first at everything, as though somehow that diminishes the importance of contributions and concerns of others.
Cha
(297,029 posts)4. Mahalo Starry.. and Thank you, Hillary for staying on this so intensely!
SunSeeker
(51,545 posts)5. K & R