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Monday October 24, 2011
Senate Proposes To Slash Funds That Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning.
We must save children from lead poisoning!
The Senate appropriations committee has called for eliminating ALL funding for the CDC’s Lead and Healthy Homes Program in its proposed FY12 budget. For many years, this funding has supported essential activities in Southeastern Pennsylvania and across the state to prevent children from being poisoned. CDC funding has made a significant impact in reducing the number of children permanently injured by lead. We cannot afford to back slide now!
Click here to send a message to Senator Casey and urge him to fully fund lead poisoning prevention. Tell him to make children a priority in budget and deficit reductions talks this fall.
How will children be impacted? The majority of homes in Pennsylvania were built before lead paint was banned for residential use. If lead paint deteriorates, children ages 0 – 5 are most vulnerable to being permanently injured by it. CDC funding has supported successful efforts to identify homes with lead hazards before a child is poisoned – to stop using children as ‘canaries in the mine’ to determine if a home is contaminated by lead. In Philadelphia alone, over the last decade the number of poisoned children has dropped from about 5,000 to 1,000.
Elimination of CDC funding will result in the near elimination of efforts to prevent children from being poisoned.
Click here to send a message to Senator Casey urging him to continue funding successful efforts that prevent childhood lead poisoning. Ask him to make children a priority in budget and deficit reduction talks this fall. Thank you for weighing in.
Sincerely,
Carolyn Adams, President & Shelly Yanoff, Executive Director
PS: Funding to prevent lead poisoning is one of many services for children that are extremely vulnerable in current federal budget and deficit reduction talks. Throughout the fall and early winter PCCY will post new information and analysis at www.pccy.org/federalbudget.
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Click here for a Federal Education Update.
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