{"id":49046,"date":"2016-02-10T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T16:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=49046"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:08:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T23:08:31","slug":"lead-contamination-is-a-national-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2016\/02\/10\/lead-contamination-is-a-national-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Contamination Is a National Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601505.us.archive.org\/19\/items\/uprising_2016_02_10\/Gerald_Markovitz_2016_02_10.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601505.us.archive.org\/19\/items\/uprising_2016_02_10\/uprising_2016_02_10.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Gerald Markowitz<\/strong>, Distinguished Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. He is the co-author with David Rosner, of &#8216;Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America\u2019s Children&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just two days before the New Hampshire primary race, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visited the town of Flint, Michigan, where a tragic and entirely preventable man-made crisis of lead contamination in the water has afflicted residents. Clinton has urged lawmakers to give the town $600 million in federal aid. <\/p>\n<p>But no amount of aid can undo the damage that lead does, especially on children. My guest, Gerald Markowitz, along with his co-author David Rosner described the devastating impact of lead on children in a new article:  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As little as a few specks of lead in the water children drink or in flakes of paint that come off the walls of old houses and are ingested can change the course of a life. The amount of lead dust that covers a thumbnail is enough to send a child into a coma or into convulsions leading to death. It takes less than a tenth of that amount to cause IQ loss, hearing loss, or behavioral problems like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and dyslexia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read Markowitz and Rosner&#8217;s article just published in Tom Dispatch called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/blog\/176101\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two, Three&#8230; Many Flints: America\u2019s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Gerald Markowitz, Distinguished Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. He is the co-author with David Rosner, of &#8216;Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America\u2019s Children&#8217;. Just two days before the New Hampshire primary race, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49048,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49046\/revisions\/49048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}