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My God: fertility rates in Flint, MI before and after the city switched to lead-poisoned Flint River water www2.ku.edu/~kuwpaper/2017…
Here's the story. The numbers are actually worse than the chart lets on. washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
The fertility drop is "likely a reflection of an increase in fetal deaths and miscarriages." You can measure the former, but not the latter
After the lead-poisoned water was introduced, fetal deaths increased by a "horrifyingly large" 58 percent. washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
Researchers described it as a "culling of the least healthy fetuses."
Best estimate: "between 198 and 276 more children would have been born had Flint not enacted the switch in water" washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
As of late 2016, lead levels in Flint water were still three times higher than in Detroit
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Christopher Ingraham
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Folks, we’re going dog sledding
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Christopher Ingraham
@_cingraham
To think that before today, it had never occurred to me that there might be a frog for me
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“We are not paying taxes, we are investing in our society. We are purchasing quality of life.” washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…
That quote's from a Danish author and happiness expert. It floors me because I have never heard an American politician talk about taxes this way.
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