How equity isn’t built into the infrastructure bill—and ways to fix it

By all measures, the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) signed into law last month is a massive, once-in-a-generation outlay. But as history shows, the consequences of such massive federal outlays have been the inequitable distribution of benefits by race as well as the burdens of their resulting projects. Interstate highway construction in … Continue reading How equity isn’t built into the infrastructure bill—and ways to fix it