Michigan doctor who revealed Flint water crisis now takes on child poverty
by The Guardian
The Guardian— Mona Hanna-Attisha launched a program to provide funds during a newborn’s first year – and wants to replicate it across the countryFlint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’In 2015, Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha alerted the world that children were being poisoned by lead in the water of her home town of Flint, Michigan. Now, as Flint marks the 10-year anniversary of the crisis, she’s set her sights on another target: the underlying poverty that she...
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