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Trump to Undo Obama-Era Federal Transportation Jobs Program That Aided Minority Communities
When President Donald Trump presented his latest round of regulatory cuts at an August 15 press conference, he billed the sweeping elimination of environmental reviews and restrictions in federal construction permitting rules as a prelude to his long-stalled $1 trillion infrastructure rebuilding program.
But with momentum on infrastructure stuck in neutral, the administration this week is quietly moving ahead to repeal a two-year-old initiative dating from the Obama administration that might be the only dynamic infrastructure and jobs program in existence at the federal level. According to its August Significant Rulemaking Report, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has set Friday as the termination date for a program that has already enabled states and cities to create thousands of new, high-wage transportation and construction jobs in some of the nation’s most depressed local labor markets.
"Many of these jobs were finally addressing long-term unemployment—many, for people of color,” said Angela Glover Blackwell, CEO of PolicyLink, an economic and social equity think tank. “This is yet another example of the Trump administration not standing up for jobs for the nation's most vulnerable."
Madeline Janis, executive director of Jobs to Move America (JMA), a national coalition that has been at the center of leveraging public transit projects to generate opportunities for the unemployed, has been raising the alarm about the repeal. She told Capital & Main that she discovered it buried in the DOT rules change report almost by accident.
“It's inexplicable to us why the Trump DOT would withdraw a proposal to make jobs available to people who need them—and in places where transportation infrastructure is being built and invested in,” she said. “For an administration that has talked about caring about creating good jobs related to infrastructure, it's a complete contradiction between the stated policy versus the actual policy.”
But with momentum on infrastructure stuck in neutral, the administration this week is quietly moving ahead to repeal a two-year-old initiative dating from the Obama administration that might be the only dynamic infrastructure and jobs program in existence at the federal level. According to its August Significant Rulemaking Report, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has set Friday as the termination date for a program that has already enabled states and cities to create thousands of new, high-wage transportation and construction jobs in some of the nation’s most depressed local labor markets.
"Many of these jobs were finally addressing long-term unemployment—many, for people of color,” said Angela Glover Blackwell, CEO of PolicyLink, an economic and social equity think tank. “This is yet another example of the Trump administration not standing up for jobs for the nation's most vulnerable."
Madeline Janis, executive director of Jobs to Move America (JMA), a national coalition that has been at the center of leveraging public transit projects to generate opportunities for the unemployed, has been raising the alarm about the repeal. She told Capital & Main that she discovered it buried in the DOT rules change report almost by accident.
“It's inexplicable to us why the Trump DOT would withdraw a proposal to make jobs available to people who need them—and in places where transportation infrastructure is being built and invested in,” she said. “For an administration that has talked about caring about creating good jobs related to infrastructure, it's a complete contradiction between the stated policy versus the actual policy.”
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-obama-federal-transportation-jobs-minorities-654919
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Evidently, A LOT.
But her emails
But his behavior isn't normal for any person! Money or not, it's tough to believe he's kept up his behavior for this long, let alone that anyone would think these offensive and outlandish behaviors are acceptable. We tend to be hyper-critical of any president, Obama wore that tan suit and we can remember every verbal faux pas that any of them made, from Ford to Carter to both Bushes! 
