Cash as Medicine in Flint, Michigan.

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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For nearly a decade, Flint, Michigan has been synonymous with the lead and water crisis that put the city on the map. But Flint is resilient. Abdul reflects on the central role of poverty in all that Flint experienced. Then he speaks with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician who uncovered the water crisis, and Prof. Luke Shaefer, an anti-poverty researcher, about their new “Rx Kids” program to provide cash to pregnant moms to solve poverty in Flint.

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