Nearly 3,000 US Communities Have Lead Levels Higher Than Flint: Reuters
A Reuters investigation this week uncovered nearly 3,000 different communities across the U.S. with lead levels higher than those found in Flint, Michigan, which has been the center of an ongoing water contamination crisis since 2014. The investigation found that many of the hot-spots are receiving little attention or funding. Local healthcare advocates said they…
Trump Predictably Uses Attacks to Justify Counter-Productive Anti-Muslim Policies
President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for a Muslim ban or registry are still on the table, he suggested Wednesday afternoon, implying that the deadly attacks this week in Turkey and Berlin validated such discriminatory policies. Speaking to reporters outside his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida he said that “what’s going on is terrible. Terrible terrible.”…
With DOJ Reversal on Private Prisons, Corporate Jailers Get What They Paid For
Reflecting the influence of big donors and corporate interests on the Trump administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday rescinded the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 2016 directive to scale back the use of for-profit, private prisons. In a one-page memo to the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Sessions wrote that the August…