When the Trump administration’s infrastructure plan was laid out in early June, it included almost nothing about equity. Instead, with its emphasis on bridges, roads, and tunnels, the plan falls far short on broadband, public transit, and clean water — infrastructure necessities that bring opportunities to people of color and low-income communities, and to the nation’s economy. In her June 9 New York Times opinion piece, Angela Glover Blackwell describes how achieving equity demands a specific focus on the nation's most vulnerable and a broader definition of infrastructure.
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