Flint's lead crisis will cost each of its children $50,000 in their lifetimes

Sarah Rice/Getty The city of Flint expected to save $5 million over two years when it changed the source of its drinking water two years ago. But that money-saving measure could eventually end up costing almost 80 times that in future economic losses. In addition to poisoning the city of 100,000 people and exposing an estimated 8,000 children to toxic levels of lead caused by the new water source, the total lifetime economic losses of the lead poisoning in Flint will reach $395 million, or $50,0...