"this bill has the potential to represent a
major first step in addressing racial inequities and existing infrastructure
failures. Notably, if implemented well, major concerns faced by people of color
throughout the United States—unsafe and car-damaging roads, lack of access to
high-speed internet, health risks as a result of poor water infrastructure and
particulate matter pollution, insufficient and unreliable public transit, and
high flood and other climate change risks—can be significantly improved by the
IIJA."
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The IIJA has
provided a historic opportunity for advancing racial equity in infrastructure
investments. Only if state and local activists force their elected officials
to take advantage of it will its full potential be realized. cepr.net |
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