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The White House says President Joe Biden is taking a series of new steps to combat the coronavirus, hoping to get the country closer to normal by July 4. — Direct states to make all American adults eligible for vaccinations by May 1. — Deliver vaccines directly to up to an additional 700 community health centers that reach underserved communities, increasing the total number of participating centers to 950.

The Texas Department of Transportation has been moving forward with its $7 billion plan to remake and expand Interstate 45 to lessen local traffic, but Harris County threw a wrench in that effort on Thursday by suing the state transportation agency. The county hopes its lawsuit will lead the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to order TxDOT to pause the project and send it back to the drawing board to come up with a new plan that better addresses the concerns of county resid...

Several of the slew of executive orders President Joe Biden signed his first day in office have dealt with equity or reimagined the country as divided between categories of oppressors and the marginalized. Pictured: Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House March 5, 2021. (Photo: Al Drago/Pool/Getty Images) Commentary By Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, is a widely experienced international correspondent, commentator, and editor who has reported from Asia, ...

More vaccine sites are opening up in Los Angeles County to help get shots to underserved communities hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"This is about equity, this about justice." The new COVID vaccination site in the heart of East L.A. marks a big step forward in providing more resources to underserved communities with some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country.

4 Mar 2021 Wednesday, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson examined how teachers’ unions were using “equity” to keep children out of school. According to Carlson, those efforts have resulted in the allegations of “white supremacy” being used to justify closing schools. CARLSON: We’re in reporter mode tonight here with some key stats on your government. Here they are: 42 days into the administration and still no solo press conference from Joe Biden. That is the longest stretch of sil...

The City of Denver is focusing its vaccine efforts on underserved communities. On Thursday, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock announced new fixed vaccine sites that will open on March 7.

"The digital divide is very real." Vaccination sites such as the one at The Forum in Inglewood and at CSULA hope to make inroads in underserved communities to increase accessibility for people without cars and for those without computers.

TSCA/FIFRA/TRI “Environmental Justice: Operationalizing TSCA to Fulfill Its Destiny,” By Lynn L. Bergeson For The American College Of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) Blog: The Biden Administration has embraced environmental justice with unprecedented gusto. In its July 2020 Plan to Secure Environmental Justice and Equitable Economic Opportunity, the Biden Administration sets out in broad terms how it intends to use an “All-of-Government” approach to “rooting out systemic racism in our l...

Health Net has selected Wesley Health Centers, also known as JWCH Institute, to participate in a national research study to understand the impact of COVID-19 on racial minorities and underserved communities.