JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has visited the home of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Mississippi’s capital. Buttigieg said after Friday’s field trip that transportation is aimed at ensuring fairness and justice in America because it affects economic opportunity. He spent Thursday and Friday in Mississippi selling projects that raise cash under a 2021 federal infrastructure law. One of them is a planned $20 million improvement on Medgar Evers Boulevard in the city of Jackson. This highway is a segment of the U. S. Bennie Thompson said Jackson missed out on past investments in transportation while cash went to wealthier suburbs.
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