President announces $3.3bn in infrastructure spending to ‘right historic wrongs’ as he takes 2024 campaign to vital swing states
    • Johnmannesca@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Student debt forgiveness actually ended up working for the people who held their debts the longest out of all applicants. Ask your senator about extending the pell grant before saying something else of ill intent towards someone who tried to help.

  • regul@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The largest grant is going to Portland for a freeway widening that has occasionally included a cap in the renders.

    Austin’s grant is going to a similar project.

    The freeway widenings apparently must continue, but now they’ll just come with caps in progressive cities.

    • fireweed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I saw the headline and thought, “we ripping out the highways or doubling down on them with expensive bandaid ‘fixes’?”

      Doubling down it is. Crap like this is why Biden will never be a “climate president”: we can’t address the systemic issues that are the primary drivers of climate change as long as we keep trying to work within the confines of said systems.