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that still exists today. the commitments include a $10 billion community revitalisation fund to target economically under served communities $15 billion in competitive grants for neighbourhoods cut off from investment, and also to use the federal government s immense purchasing power to sign more government contracts with smaller, often minority owned businesses. the focus on black businesses is particularly significant, given tulsa s history. this 3d model by the new york times shows the kinds of businesses that were destroyed during a racially motivated massacre in 1921. the local drug store, barber shop, billiards hall, newspaper office, grocery store all black owned, all burned to the ground. andre perry is a senior fellow at the brookings institution and joins us now from new orleans. think you very much forjoining us.
01 Apr 2021 | News
Biden unveils historic $325B research and innovation plan
Massive R&D proposal is part of US President’s ‘once in a generation’ $2.3T infrastructure plan – but opposition will be intense in Congress
US President Joe Biden.
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled a massive $325 billion research, innovation and pandemic preparedness plan that, if signed into law, would see the country’s biggest increase in its federal non-defence R&D spending on record.
The spending is part of a sprawling $2.3 trillion infrastructure-investment proposal, called the American Jobs Plan, that would direct billions over eight years to initiatives such as charging stations for electric vehicles, boosting broadband coverage, eliminating lead water pipes and repairing ageing bridges. The main plan faces near-unanimous Republican opposition; but historically, science funding often gets broad, bipartisan support in Congress, so odds are that at least some of the R&D