Candy J Cooper
1) Poisoned water: how the citizens of Flint, Michigan, fought for their lives and warned the nation
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
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"Flint, Michigan had been built up, then abandoned, by General Motors. In 2014, as part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Within months, many residents broke out in rashes. Children stopped growing. Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Despite the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the city's faucets,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist"--