Reuters
U.S. Treasury’s Yellen touts infrastructure bill as reducing economic inequality
ATLANTA (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday traveled to Atlanta to call for passage of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, saying it would help reverse wage and racial inequalities and start to mitigate climate change. Yellen, in excerpts of remarks to be delivered at the city of Atlanta’s economic development authority, called the bill, now under debate in the U.S. Senate, the largest infrastructure investment since the construction of the interstate highway system began in the 1950s under the Eisenhower administration.