02/03/2021
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"at the end of the day, infrastructure, in its development and implementation, has the potential to divide or to bridge, to enforce oppression or to dismantle it, and we have to learn the lessons of th..."
"the 1956 Interstate Highway Act... resulted in the displacement of more than 1 million people and more than 475,000 families in just 2 decades."
"Our communities lost access to jobs and other critical resources, divestment that to this very day contributes to the racial wealth gap in our nation."
"for too long, our traditional infrastructure investments and policies have really exacerbated inequities and disparities in our communities."