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Federal Government Approves $119M Plan to Remove Lead from Michigan Homes

The state is starting with Flint.
Yessenia Funes Nov 15, 2016 4:26PM EST

The federal government approved a $119 million lead abatement plan for the state of Michigan yesterday (November 14). The plan will distribute roughly $24 million per year in state and federal funds to Michigan over five years or until all eligible homes are lead-free.

This Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services-approved plan amends the state’s current Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) by using CHIP funds to pay for lead removal. Therefore, homes and other residential structures receiving federal funds for lead abatement must house either someone younger than 19 who is eligible for CHIP or Medicaid or a pregnant woman who currently lives or visits there frequently.

The state will prioritize the predominantly Black city of Flint, where its almost 100,000 residents continue to face lead-contaminated drinking water, but the plan will also identify other areas that are at similar risk, according to the statement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services will select communities based on the percentage of the population that is low income, under the age of 6 with an elevated blood lead level, lives in pre-1978 and pre-1940 housing and “other social determinant factors” like unemployment levels, according to the CHIP amendment.

“This approval is an unprecedented step for the state and federal government in helping Flint families protect their children from the risks associated with lead,” said Nicole Lurie, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the federal health department, in the statement.

The removal of lead will follow a typical environmental investigation with assessment including surfaces like indoor and outdoor paint, windows, floors and garages. The city must replace lead service lines before homes’ interior plumbing and fixtures can be fixed, but the plan does make clear that “related abatement may begin prior to the completion of water related activities.”
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Curious to see what other cities are eligible
 
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There hasn't been clean water in over 1,000 days. This is sad!

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key word, quietly
 
cajunrevenge said:
Yeah no, white people got Obama elected. Blacks vote for Democrats overwhelmingly regardless. What did he take them from, 88% to 95% democrat?
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Don't even bother with AA. In his mind the Obama getting 95% of 13% of the voter block got him elected. If Obama pulled Al Gore's 90% and 10%. Basically 16M votes vs 11M votes. Obama had 10M more votes than McCain so yes it would have eaten into it, but not enough to lose him the election. And don't pretend that those black people would have voted for McCain, McCain got about 1M black votes which is what Bush got. So yeah Obama did more to get black people to the polls, but he also did better than Gore in Asians, Hispanics, and even a little more in White votes(probably from . ANd what Obama gained in the Black voters showing up, he likely lost in White people showing up to stop him.. McCain carried 55% of the white Vote which is the same of Bush, Which makes for about 54M white votes for McCain vs. about 46 for Bush.

But the facts don't matter here. We live in a world that exists post facts where fake news is is an acceptable source.
 
thethe said:
Illegal immigration has also destroyed the African American community.
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Nope. What destroted the African American community was companies shipping jobs overseas. The majority of the black population is urban based which the majority of jobs that blacks worked int he city were working factory jobs. There's still jobs in cities but they're mainly in the financial sector and service industry to those businesses.

Also the CIA making crack and releasing it in inner cities.
 
zitothebrave said:
Nope. What destroted the African American community was companies shipping jobs overseas. The majority of the black population is urban based which the majority of jobs that blacks worked int he city were working factory jobs. There's still jobs in cities but they're mainly in the financial sector and service industry to those businesses.

Also the CIA making crack and releasing it in inner cities.
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I agree that the first point played a role as well but illegal immigrants are taking low wage jobs and unfortunately those are the jobs that African Americans are disproportionately represented.

If liberals truly cares about African Americans they would remove a good majority of the illegal immigrants in this country.

Sounds like trumps policies (cracking down on illegal immigration and getting jobs back to america) ate more hepful to the African American community than anything Obama did.
 
thethe said:
I agree that the first point played a role as well but illegal immigrants are taking low wage jobs and unfortunately those are the jobs that African Americans are disproportionately represented.

If liberals truly cares about African Americans they would remove a good majority of the illegal immigrants in this country.

Sounds like trumps policies (cracking down on illegal immigration and getting jobs back to america) ate more hepful to the African American community than anything Obama did.
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Except nope. Most immigrants I know do the ****tiest work. We're talking migrant workers, double shifts at different fast food places, etc. And honestly I know no one who'd hire someone who doesn't speak English over someone who would for similar wage. The issue is these people are doing jobs that no one wants to do. I know plenty of people who'd rather scrap and get by than be a migrant worker.
 
zitothebrave said:
Except nope. Most immigrants I know do the ****tiest work. We're talking migrant workers, double shifts at different fast food places, etc. And honestly I know no one who'd hire someone who doesn't speak English over someone who would for similar wage. The issue is these people are doing jobs that no one wants to do. I know plenty of people who'd rather scrap and get by than be a migrant worker.
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Well, hello arguments from 2002.

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/03/...roduction-construction-jobs-falls-since-2007/
 
thethe said:
Let's just completely ignore all the good paying construction jobs.
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There's a pretty substantial building boom (bubble?) going on in my community...housing and CRE. There have been a couple of articles in local media over the last year or so about the lack of skilled-trade labor (carpenters, plumbers, etc.) available to support the construction boom. This is, it should be noted, in a very conservative Southern town with a lot of loud (if narrow) anti-immigrant sentiment. I'm not trying to make a particular political point with this, just noting that where I live there is a net demand for labor in that exact category.
 
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