This article about Jackson, Mississippi is just depressing. During the worst excesses of Trumpism, living in an indigo Blue state was a blessing, but for the most part a federal system that allows state governments to thwart needed services in cities is really bad. We saw it first with the Affordable Care Act, where states like Texas and, yes, Mississippi turned down billions of federal dollars to make sure that their citizens would never believe that the government can make their lives better. Now we see a case where critical dollars appropriated explicitly to fix problems like Jackson's might not go where they are supposed to.
I'm sure this is really just a messaging problem, though.
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