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The funding — more than half of which is earmarked for Indigenous communities — aims to make U.S. transit safer and more accessible.

(The Center Square) — The Philadelphia area will receive almost $1 million in federal grants targeted at impoverished neighborhoods to make transit safer and better connected.

The Biden Administration has announced $50 million in funding- spread over five years - for five university centers to study the effects of persistent poverty on cancer.

ORANGEBURG - On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced the Biden-Harris administration awarded $22,755,600 from the RAISE discretionary grant program to an infrastructure project in South …

A huge share of an important discretionary grant program will go to communities that were historically harmed by transportation investments.

Two Arkansas projects will receive a total of $48.8 million in federal grants from the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program for trails and road improvements.

Three Wisconsin projects, including two in the city of Milwaukee, will receive federal funding through the RAISE program.

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joined Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn and others in South Carolina to announce that the Biden-Harris Administration has awarded more than $2.2 billion from the RAISE discretionary grant program to 162 different infrastructure projects across the country.

/PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded a $25 million Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grant to...

The RAISE grant program, expanded under the president’s infrastructure law, supports communities of all sizes, with half of the FY2023 funding going to rural areas