How infrastructure bill can address historic inequality

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Joan Fitzgerald

US President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, members of Congress and stakeholders during the signing of H.R. 1652, the VOCA Fix to Sustain the Crime Victims Fund Act of 2021, in the East Room at the White House on July 22, 2021.

The bipartisan Infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signed into law is already pumping more than a billion dollars into the U.S. economy. The money will help fix the country’s aging roads, bridges, waterways and help reconnect communities of color divided by past projects.

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