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Friday, July 10, 2009

Feds push for use of transportation stimulus in poor areas

The Barack Obama administration is pressing states to spend more of their transportation stimulus money in poor and distressed areas.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wrote to state governors Thursday encouraging them to allocate money they are getting from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to “economically distressed areas.”

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