Project 2025 would upend Black Americans’ lives: Analysis
A new report lays out a multitude of ways in which the conservative Project 2025 plan could negatively impact Black Americans. In the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Thurgood Marshall Institute’s report, titled “Attack on Our Power and Dignity: What Project 2025 Means for Black Communities,” advocates and lawyers highlight how the Heritage Foundation’s controversial plan…
Project 2025 proposals will ‘upend’ and devastate the Black community, new report claims
Project 2025, the controversial conservative thinktank blueprint for a future Republican administration, represents a “direct and deliberate threat to Black communities,” according to civil rights activists.A report this month from the Legal Defense Fund argues that the blueprint, which would eliminate key government agencies and roll back policies aimed at remedying police misconduct, “is the latest and one of the most comprehensive efforts to turn back the clock and erase the hard-won progress of Black people in the United States that has strengthened U.S. democracy.”The Independent has contacted the Heritage Foundation, authors of Project 2025, for comment.The analysis points...
New Jersey accepting applications for Local Freight Impact Fund program
The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) recently opened the application period for the Fiscal Year 2025 Local Freight Impact Fund program, a $28 million program used to improve local roads and bridges with heavy truck traffic. “The Local Freight Impact Fund provides counties and municipalities with funding to improve truck routes used to move […] The post New Jersey accepting applications for Local Freight Impact Fund program appeared first on Transportation Today.