In Florida, Being Poor Isn’t Enough to Qualify for the Best Water Aid

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Florida reserves its deepest aid from a federal water fund for small towns, excluding bigger low-income communities. By Kate Waxman Belle Glade is one of the poorest cities in Florida, a majority-Black farmworker community on the southern rim of Lake Okeechobee, where clean and reliable drinking water has never been a given. But when Belle […]

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