Extreme cold weather has exposed the reality that low-income, largely Black and Brown communities are disproportionately affected by extreme weather events due to decades of housing segregation, infrastructure neglect, and economic inequality.
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Infrastructure Bill Funds Pollution Bomb for Black NeighborhoodsÂ
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black In 2021, President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law made a whopping $1.2 trillion in federal funds available to states to upgrade everything […]