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Removing Highways to Heal Racial Wrongs
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A view of the I-81 freeway in Syracuse, New York, U.S., April 28, 2021. (REUTERS/Zoe Davis)
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For more than 50 years, Interstate 81
highway has cut through the Southside neighborhood of Syracuse, a city in northwestern New York State. Smoke from vehicles traveling on the
elevated road would fall down to the area where most people are Black and poor.
Now, New York State wants to replace that part of the elevated highway with a street-level road. The aim is to connect the city s urban areas again. And building could begin as soon as next year.
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May 25, 2021
Florida s Republican-led government announced Monday that it will soon cut off a $300-per-week federal boost to unemployment benefits, the 23rd GOP state to take such a step in recent weeks as the Biden Labor Department faces pressure to ensure the lifeline continues reaching jobless workers.
The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank, estimates that four million people across the nation will be harmed by the Republican benefit cuts, which GOP leaders have falsely claimed are necessary to push people back into the labor force. Florida is the latest state to pull the rug out from under jobless workers as Republican governors nationwide sabotage the economic recovery.