DOT’s Plan to Distribute Funding by Birth and Marriage Rates Would Leave Communities Most In Need Behind

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18137053

Moreover, the DOT’s proposed prioritization would not benefit the American people as a whole. We find that the winners of such a policy would be higher-income areas and those with larger white populations. As such, the policy would reinforce many of the nation’s existing demographic inequities and fail to support the US residents most in need of expanded transportation investment.