What Are We Waiting For?
Pennsylvania's kids need your help now! Every year the promise of thousands of young children in Pennsylvania is diminished due to lead paint poisoning. PA children are poisoned at a rate 2.3 times higher than children poisoned in Flint, Michigan at the peak of the city's water crisis. Approximately 8,000 PA children are poisoned every year, yet these are only the children we know about as only 20% of children are even tested. What's worse is this is an entirely preventable fate.
The time is now to fulfill countless political promises to finally end lead paint poisoning in PA. Thankfully, due to Pennsylvanians like you fighting for our kids, the PA General Assembly is on the brink of passing a bipartisan bill, SB522, to address this crisis. Please urge your state representatives to push House leadership to put SB522 up for a vote next week when the House returns to Harrisburg before it's too late.
Every day this legislation sits, our kids are put at risk. What are we waiting for? Let's get this done now!