Starving the Statehouse: the Hidden Tax Policies behind States' Long-Run Fiscal Crises

In 2014, news of a water crisis in Flint, Michigan, shook the nation. Tests conducted after months of public complaints confirmed investigators' worst fears: the city's taps contained dangerously high levels of lead and had poisoned people for years. A wave of studies soon revealed that tens of thousands had been exposed to the neurotoxin. Children were among those most severely affected.