U.S. Department of the Treasury Drops $1 Billion in the Fight Against Blight

The big news from the U.S. Department of the Treasury Wednesday is that Harriet Tubman will replace former U.S. President Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 dollar bill. She’d been floated previously as a candidate for the new face of the $10 bill. Buoyed by a certain Pulitzer Prize–winning musical, however, Alexander Hamilton is not throwing away his spot on the ten. Other figures from the women’s suffrage and Civil Rights movements are expected to join them on the faces of U.S. money.

Treasury announced some other important news today, too. The department is dedicating $1 billion to fighting blight. That’s 50 million $20 bills that will go toward preventing foreclosure and stabilizing troubled housing markets in the states hit hardest by the housing crisis and recession.