{"id":38854,"date":"2020-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/michigan-to-pay-600-million-to-flint-water-crisis-victims\/"},"modified":"2020-08-21T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T16:10:07","slug":"michigan-to-pay-600-million-to-flint-water-crisis-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/michigan-to-pay-600-million-to-flint-water-crisis-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan to Pay &#36;600 Million to Flint Water Crisis Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Residents exposed to lead-tainted tap water after officials switched the water supply six years ago<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Aug. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Victims of the Flint water crisis will receive about $600 million from the state of Michigan in a major settlement to be announced this week, two people with knowledge of the deal say.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the city were exposed to lead-tainted tap water after officials switched the water supply six years ago, <i>The New York Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Flint residents are expected to be eligible to receive money under the settlement, with most of it going to children who were poisoned by the tap water.<\/p>\n<p>No details of the settlement, which must be approved by a federal judge in Michigan, were released, <i>The Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/19\/us\/flint-water-crisis-settlement.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The New York Times<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents exposed to lead-tainted tap water after officials switched the water supply six years ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-38854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}