Announcement By White House – Pandemic Relief Funds Totaling $785 Million Relief Funds Will Support Communities Of Color
Originally published by The 19th
The Biden administration announced Wednesday that $785 million of the American Rescue Plan will go toward the communities that were hit hardest by the pandemic, following the recommendations of a COVID-19 health equity report that was released last month.
“COVID-19 made it clear that in this country, a person’s ZIP code is a stronger driver of their health than their genetic code,” said Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, who headed the administration’s COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. “And so we set out to find ways to address and overcome those social and structural drivers and forge a path forward rooted in what is fundamentally fair.”
President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first full day in office to establish the task force. Members worked 1...