How Companies Make Millions Off Lead-Poisoned, Poor Blacks

How Companies Make Millions Off Lead-Poisoned, Poor Blacks
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The letter arrived in April, a mishmash of strange numbers and words. This at first did not alarm Rose. Most letters are that way for her — frustrating puzzles she can’t solve. Rose, who can scarcely read or write, calls herself a “lead kid.” Her childhood home, where lead paint chips blanketed her bedsheets like snowflakes, “affected me really bad,” she says. “In everything I do.”

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