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It’s the sort of problem that anyone who’s been paying attention to this community’s lead poisoning problem among children might not have imagined. The grant money to reduce contamination from lead-based paint in a number of South Bend households — funding that advocates have been fighting for — is there. But the families who need such help, aren’t. As reported in a recent Tribune story, $3 million in grant money is practically untouched, with just a small number of families enrolled in a program that officials hoped would help 100 households. And the number of children tested for lead in their blood dropped by a third last year, with inspections performed by the health department decreasing by 40%.

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