HIST 11B Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: White Flight, Technocracy, Profit Maximization
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After installing an unelected emergency manager in the city of flint in 2011, the republican governor was forced to reverse his appointee"s 2014 decision to switch the water supply to the flint river. Virginia tech study that confirmed high levels of lead in many of the city"s homes. And for some reason, no one bothered to fix it after nearly 3 years. Despite the state"s culpability, snyder would pay for only half of the million necessary to return the city to safe drinking water. The rest would be paid for by the cash-strapped city itself and its powerful benefactor, the c. s. Mott foundation, a nonprofit set up by one of gm"s original shareholders. There are people who are dying without water! On the surface, flint"s lead-contaminated water appears to be the product of a specifically local form of negligence and corruption.
