The Detroit Public School system has shut off drinking water at every one of the 106 school buildings it operates because of elevated levels of lead and copper found in water testing at 16 out of 24 schools.
The announcement is an admission that the catastrophic conditions in Flint, Michigan, caused by the profit-driven decision to shift the city’s water system to polluted water from the Flint River, are replicated for school children in Detroit, the largest city in Michigan and the poorest big city in America.
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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/31/detr-a31.html
Our economy may be good for the rich, but the rest of us don't even have clean water to drink.
This will continue until we force a HUGE change in our priorities, including a MASSIVE reduction in military spending.
And what political candidate is going to accomplish that?
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