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Like Jackson, Mississippi; Flint, Michigan, and countless other cities throughout the country, Chicago's working-class communities are being poisoned

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Loss, rashes and blood pressure issues. well be told everything spawn -- >> eight years, on flint is using another water source and replaced many pipes, but she and her neighbors still cook with and drink bottled water, using upwards of ten cases a week. >> do you drink out of your tap water? >> no. ill never drink the water there. >> flint, like jackson, its predominantly black with a low tax base, which experts say, plays a significant role in their water woes. what does justice look like to y...

That took out the water treatment plant, where pumps had already been failing, leading 150,000 plus residents without safe drinking water. do you remember when the water seemed to go bad here, and jackson? >> ten, 12 years. >> more than a decades? >> it really got worse. >> families in jackson say the water crisis in the capital city of mississippi started long before long -- even the new head of the environmental protection agency knows that. >> just this year alone, were gonna make over ten bi...

That trust is going to be hard to come by, because even when jackson said the water was safe over the years, it wasnt. >> my son has 80 80, he is a developmental disorder. hes not caught up with his class. >> jackson had a number of violations from departments of protection agency over decades. >> ten months ago, attorney -- sued on behalf of hundreds of residents who are suffering the effects of lead in their tap water. >> your heart goes out to them because weve experienced that. >> no one und...

Water fountain in school? >> no, i will die! >> a six-year-old worrying about death over the government s failure to ensure safe drinking water. >> i mean, do you have a heart? what god do you serve? its an insult to the state of mississippi. and this is what we go through. >> you dont have clean drinking water? >> no. >> wilson uses bottled water for drinking and boils water every day multiple, times a day, for everything else. >> this time, it was a flood that took out the water treatment plan...

There. >> flint, like jackson, its predominantly black with a low tax base, which experts say, plays a significant role in their water woes. what does justice look like to you? >> we know theyre not going to tell the truth. we know that theyre not going to -- the only thing i could think of is a legal action. the >> children of flint want to 626 million dollar settlement over their poisoned water, but to the people of jackson are still waiting just for a clean drinking water. never mind justice....

Dont want any more finger pointed, we just want the government to. >> people are waiting for the tap water to be clean and safe. how long do they have to wait to have clean drinking water? >> the honest answer is -- were not gonna get out overnight. were working around the clock, as quickly as possible, to provide some stability to the system. that, again, is why this administration fought so hard for the bipartisan -- and the 50 billion dollars, historic investment, it will go a long way in reb...

Understand the barriers that communities have to accessing our programs. the barriers to fundamental resources, to help them be better prepared against disasters, so we really focused on increasing the amount of resiliency in communities, with the specific focus on those communities that have traditionally been underserved and had a hard time accessing funds. >> we will certainly be watching and hopeful as we face these unpredictable situations, but predictable that if you negligent infrastructu...

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