Budgets leave children by wayside in 2 Michigan cities

CNN: One crisis in which the welfare of a major city's children were sacrificed in the budget-tightening process would be enough to concern any state.

But two crises?

That's the case in Michigan, which is dealing with "sick-outs" staged by teachers fed up with the abominable conditions of public schools in the state's largest city, Detroit, while also grappling with the widespread lead poisoning of children and other residents in its seventh-largest city, Flint.

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