‘How dare you … let our kids play in lead and arsenic soil,’ says mom to Indiana officials
‘How dare you … let our kids play in lead and arsenic soil’ At this point we understand the dangers of lead poisoning and yet, the government continues to be very slow acting to rid our pipes of this invisible poison. This is Shantel Allen’s story. The 27-year-old mother of five lives in the West Calumet Complex in East Chicago, Indiana, and has for about six years. Her trouble this summer when a Department of Health official knocked on her door and announced that her family needed to be tested for lead poisoning. But it wasn’t from her pipes,...
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