Video: 5 Things You Need to Know About Flint, USA, Water Crisis

Earlier today the Center for American Progress released a new video titled "5 Things You Need to Know About Flint's Water Crisis", exploring the most pressing facts about the crisis and what needs to happen next. The video highlights not only how this tragedy is unlikely to go away any time soon, but also how the systemic failures exhibited in Flint are unfortunately not confined there, spreading across the country and disproportionately affecting low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. As we already know, for months, government officials in Michigan have been scrambling to address the fallout of the man-made water catastrophe in Flint that poisoned thousands of mostly low-income people of color.

Meanwhile, Center for American Progress experts Rebecca Ullrich and Maryam Adamu published today this Medium post about the crisis, lead exposure, and what we know about investing in young children. You can read the full piece here.