Nicole Brown, a 2003 summer intern at NHI/Shelterforce, is an urban planning major at the State University of New York at Albany. Dana Natale, formerly NHIs director of operations, is project coordinator for the Community Outreach Partnership Center at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
The effects of lead poisoning on a child’s physical and emotional development and cognitive ability are well known. An investigation that ran two years...