APRIL 14, 2021

American Rescue Plan Invests in Public Health Infrastructure

By Tom Rosenthal

Throughout the pandemic, public health experts have been lamenting the lack of funding for public health, which had been steadily decreasing. President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP), which was signed into law on March 11, reverses a decade of cuts with a $100 billion investment to substantially increase America’s public health infrastructure, according to a panel of public health experts.

“The focus of the American Rescue Plan is on