The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework takes critical first steps to address economic inequities and decades of infrastructure neglect that have disproportionately impacted communities of color.
Here's how the plan will advance racial equity — #WhiteHouseDeepDive THREAD🧵:
Today's digital divide is stark.
Black families are 9% less likely to have high-speed internet than their white peers – and Latino Americans are 15% less likely. Roughly 35% of individuals living on Tribal lands lack access to broadband internet.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework will help close the digital divide by bringing down internet service costs across the board and delivering high-speed broadband to every American home -- making high-speed broadband more affordable for all.
There are up to 10M homes and nearly 400,000 schools and child care facilities with lead service lines and pipes. Communities of color face disproportionate risks to lead exposure.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework will replace 100% of those lead pipes and service lines.
Asian American and Black American workers commute by public transit at nearly four times the rate of white workers. For example, in New York City, the average Black resident spends 110 minutes more per week commuting to work than the average white resident.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework's $48.5B investment will modernize transit, improve accessibility, and deploy thousands of zero-emissions vehicles.
This investment in public transit will reduce commute times and create economic opportunities in communities of color.
Diesel air pollution is linked to asthma and health issues that disproportionately hurt communities of color.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework will deploy over 35,000 electric school buses nationwide, helping districts buy clean, American-made, zero-emission buses.
26% of Black Americans and 29% of Latino Americans live within three miles of a Superfund site. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework will invest $21B to clean up Brownfield and Superfund sites and remedy environmental hazards like abandoned mines and orphaned oil & gas wells.
People of color are more likely to live in areas most vulnerable to flooding and other climate change-related weather events. For example, in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Black and Latino residents were twice as likely to report lost income.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework invests $52B to help communities build resilience by elevating roads and bridges, hardening physical infrastructure, and winterizing the power grid. It will also fund emergency response strategies and make it easier to buy flood insurance.
Across the board, communities of color are more likely to be burdened by pollution.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework meets this challenge by investing in a clean energy grid which will mitigate pollution impacts, enhance reliability and resilience, and lower costs.
Significant portions of the interstate highway system were built through Black neighborhoods, destroying homes, schools, churches, and parks and causing lasting disconnection and disinvestment for residents who stayed.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework creates a first-ever program to reconnect communities divided by transportation infrastructure. The program will fund planning, design, demolition, and reconstruction of street grids, parks, or other infrastructure.
Read more about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework and its investments to close racial equity gaps and help build healthy, successful communities nationwide: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
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.@SecretaryPete, here. I’m taking over the White House’s Twitter today to tell you all about @POTUS’ Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework.
If you haven’t heard yet, there is a new bipartisan agreement on what would be the largest infrastructure investment in a generation.
That means federal dollars invested in:
🌉 Fixing roads and bridges
🚄 21st Century Passenger Rail
🚌 Modern public transit
⚡ A national network of EV chargers
💧 Clean, safe drinking water
💻 Delivering high-speed internet for every home
👷♀️ Good-paying jobs
Tackling the climate crisis is a core piece of the Build Back Better Agenda. Here are just some of our plans address climate change while rebuilding the economy for the middle class.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework makes major strides. It will shift thousands of diesel buses to electric, create good-paying, union jobs to cap tens of thousands of methane-leaking oil and gas wells, and clean up Brownfields and Superfund sites.
But we need to go further.
President Biden's Build Back Better Agenda will provide tax cuts for businesses and consumers who invest in clean energy technologies and set a clean electricity standard that moves us to a 100% clean grid by 2035.
Today President Biden outlined key pieces of his Build Back Better Agenda, a plan that would rebuild the middle class and create an economy that works for every American.
But, how exactly do we Build Back Better? Let's dig in with a #WhiteHouseDeepDive THREAD🧵
To win the 21st Century, build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out, and deal everyone in – we need to invest in our people. The Build Back Better Agenda combines the American Families Plan and the remaining pieces of the American Jobs Plan to do just that.
The Agenda will make education more affordable and expand opportunity by providing free universal preschool and two years of free community college, lowering college costs for low-and middle-income students, and increasing Pell Grants.
New today: Unemployment insurance claims are at the lowest they have been since March 2020 and the 4 week average continues to trend downward. That’s great news.
*Also* new today: A new report from the CBO confirms that the Biden economic plan is working. In February, CBO projected 2021 economic growth of 3.7%. Today, they doubled that number to 7.4%. The IMF also increased its 2021 growth forecast for the U.S. today to 7%. That’s huge.
In the last 4 months, the economy has created over 2 million jobs – offering many Americans the opportunity to get back to work after the pandemic.
After months of negotiation, we reached a bipartisan infrastructure deal that will make historic investments across our nation’s transit, high-speed broadband, and water systems.
For this week's #WhiteHouseDeepDive, we're digging into the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework will make the largest investment in bridges since the interstate highway system was created. It will replace the 10 most economically significant bridges and 10,000 more small bridges throughout the country.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework is also the most significant investment in passenger rail since Amtrak was constructed.
Since President Biden took office, we've been working to build an economy that works for every American — especially middle class Americans — not just a few at the top.
At just over 5 months in, let's check our progress.