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https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-1059703632.jpg38402560New federal funds aim to address an array of problems created by highway construction in minority neighborhoods. These are economic, social, and, perhaps above all, public health problems. In New Orleans’ Treme neighborhood, competing plans for how to deal with harm done by the Claiborne Expressway reveal the challenge of how to mitigate them meaningfully.