Republican efforts to exclude social elements such as daycare and senior care risk depriving the Black and brown people most in need of investment
The massacre of innocents was just the beginning, Joe Biden explained. African Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma, would go on to be locked out of home ownerships, see a motorway built through their community and endure chronic underinvestment by government.
“This story isn’t about the loss of life, but a loss of living, of wealth and prosperity and possibilities that still reverberates today,” the US president said during a visit marking the centenary of an attack by a white mob that left up to 300 people dead.
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You don’t have people to work on roads, bridges and railways if people don’t have childcare or if people are not healthy
Biden has a very slim majority in both houses of Congress so he is negotiating … However, he has a real awareness of the needs of racial justice