Residents of Flint, Michigan, have been poisoned by the incompetence of the state government.
Flint is an extremely poor, predominantly African-American city of nearly 100,000 residents.
Thousands of children in the city have been exposed to toxic levels of lead from corrosive drinking water flowing through aging pipes. Levels of the heavy metal measured in city drinking water at the height of the crisis rose above the threshold for “hazardous waste.” Months later, lead levels remain dangerously high.