[ May 5, 2024 ]
The difference between a President who actually takes action to help low-income communities and the Democrat party, which has exploited and divided those communities for the past 50 years.
Photo: President Donald Trump displays his signature Dec. 12, 2018, after signing the Executive Order to establish the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
Trump to direct federal agencies to move into ‘Opportunity Zones’
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday will order federal agencies to prioritize moving their offices to Opportunity Zones to spur investment in some of the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, The Post has learned.
The move will apply to all federal agencies and asks that they stop prioritizing city centers and central business districts and instead base themselves in any of the 8,769 low-income communities designated as Opportunity Zones by the Trump administration.
The initiative has driven more than $75 billion in private investment into disadvantaged communities in the two years since it was created, according to a report released earlier Monday by the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
A senior White House official said the order would see immense federal resources poured into distressed communities and also drive down the high cost of locating government offices in expensive business districts.
“Today’s executive order that the president is signing will ask agencies to, in their determination of where they’re going to build and lease new offices, include opportunity zones in that competitive process,” he said.
Qualified Opportunity Zones encourage private investment in the country’s poorest neighborhoods by providing tax incentives for people who invest in businesses operating in those areas.
There are more than 8,800 low-income communities that have been designated Opportunity Zones by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The poverty rate in these communities is at least 20 percent.
Ajit Matthew George, 66, is the founder of Second Chances Farm in Wilmington, Del., a hydroponic indoor farm where formally incarcerated individuals are given mentorship and re-entry programs and the chance of decent work with health care benefits.
He said the social enterprise that began in the hard-hit community in 2019 was made possible by investors looking to defer their taxes and make a difference.
“We are in one of the most distressed opportunity zones in Delaware,” George told The Post.
“It’s a community that everyone has forgotten. It’s poor. There are no grocery stores. There’s no business and frankly, it’s been forgotten. But by us being there, we’re giving hope. That is what we also do,” he said.
“We’re there providing jobs, we work seven days a week, we are instead of an abandoned building or an empty building, full of life. The neighborhood appreciates the fact that we are there and committed to that neighborhood,” he said.
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21 Comments
3 years ago
yep, zero constitutional authority for this just like other crap he’s done, and others, including democrats have done. why do people support this kind of tyranny? oh wait, it’s the political jersey.
3 years ago
Reply to
Tim Brown
So you are against government working fot the people to be amongst the people they work for? Why in particular would you be against a move that will materially help the poorest Americans?
3 years ago
Breaking: Medical Examiner Says George Floyd Probably Died From Fentanyl Overdose
Fentanyl / Heroin / Morphine cause respiratory depression, where breathing stops and the addict dies from lack of oxygen
https://www.theepochtimes.com/medical-examiner-george-floyd-may-have-had-a-fatal-level-of-fentanyl-when-he-died_3476562.html
The medical examiner’s office in Hennepin County, Minnesota, said George Floyd may have had a “fatal level” of fentanyl in his system when he died on May 25 in police custody, triggering widespread protests, riots, and unrest.Chief Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker said there is “no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation,” according to court documents (pdf). It said that Floyd’s level of fentanyl was “pretty high,” and it added that he had a potentially “fatal level” of the drug in his system.“[Dr. Andrew Baker] said that if Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose death,” a memo said.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
it is not only fentanyl, he had multiple potent drugs in his blood.So yes fentanyl killed him, the physical push on his body is the trigger for his death. So it is a bit more complicated than fentanyl killed him.
But yes with all the drugs, many daily situations could have also killed him. The news is not new. Floyd was a crap of a human.
in other words, if he was not drug addict, he probably wouldn’t have died that day. He is just a ploy for BLM Burn Loot Murder
3 years ago
Concentrating federal agencies in DC has proven to be an unforced error.
3 years ago
Reply to
cylde
Yes, 94% of D.C. voted for Hillary in 2016. Commie rat politicos just grab all the power and money and subjugate the citizenry.
3 years ago
Reply to
cylde
This is brilliant. It forces bureaucrats to work in areas blighted by their stupid policies, AND there’s no way to refuse without looking like the racist elitist ashholes they are.
3 years ago
Ivanka has a lot of projects going.
3 years ago
I guess that’s nice and all but I’d sure love it if the frickin’ local DMV would open. How do all these government employees survive being not open for over six months? (Rhetorical Question) We pay them to stay lockeddown for our “safety” and serious inconvenience. If you can’t comply, how are you supposed to comply? Osmosis? Photosynthesis? Scientology? Oh, silly me! Of course! Prison time! Duh & Dangit. THIS IS NOT REASONABLE. The lockdowns MUST end NOW!
3 years ago
MAGA-2020
3 years ago
Donald Trump works for free, slow Joe wouldn’t do that!
3 years ago
Reply to
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
One of these dummies works for George Soreass the other one works for Jeff Dunham!
3 years ago
KUDOS Mr. PRESIDENT !
Furthermore : To minimize nepotism, State Officials, Civil Servants, Police, should work far from where they originate.
This is a rule in all civilized countries since more than 5000 years…
3 years ago
While democrats are focused only on attacking Trump and urging the destruction of America our Great President is continuing to work tirelessly at improving the lives of Americans that need it most. Imagine an entire Nation run by patriots instead of career politicians.
3 years ago
Reply to
EpignosisOne
Well said!
“Imagine an entire Nation run by patriots instead of career politicians”.
That was the intent of the founders, that’s why we have the 1st and 2 amendment!
3 years ago
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