Lead's Toxic Toll--Repair Money Squandered While Kids Face Danger. Emilia Askari and Tina Lam.
by Askari, Emilia; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 42Environment. Publisher: Detroit Free Press, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Block grants | Detroit (Mich.) | Housing and health | Lead abatement | Lead based paint | Lead poisoning in children | United States Dept. of Housing and Urban DevelopmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Seven-year-old Janiya Williams, poisoned by lead paint, lives with her grandmother in a crumbling house near Detroit's Indian Village. Janiya is the kind of child Congress had in mind when it set aside $313 million over the last five years to remove lead from homes in low-income neighborhoods across the country. But Janiya's home remains contaminated, even though her grandmother has tried for two years to get some of the money. The reason: The rules of a tangled bureaucracy exclude her grandmother from qualifying." (DETROIT FREE PRESS) This article details lead-paint hazards and suggests that "Michigan's lead-abatement efforts are a confusing patchwork that often fails to deliver help to the state's neediest children."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Lead's Toxic Toll--Repair Money Squandered While Kids Face Danger, Jan. 21, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Seven-year-old Janiya Williams, poisoned by lead paint, lives with her grandmother in a crumbling house near Detroit's Indian Village. Janiya is the kind of child Congress had in mind when it set aside $313 million over the last five years to remove lead from homes in low-income neighborhoods across the country. But Janiya's home remains contaminated, even though her grandmother has tried for two years to get some of the money. The reason: The rules of a tangled bureaucracy exclude her grandmother from qualifying." (DETROIT FREE PRESS) This article details lead-paint hazards and suggests that "Michigan's lead-abatement efforts are a confusing patchwork that often fails to deliver help to the state's neediest children."
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