Infrastructure Investment

Transportation and Infrastructure = Immediate Jobs = Deficit Reduction

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Deficit, Jobs, Infrastructure, Investment, Infrastructure Jobs, Afl-Cio, Infrastructure Investment, Business News

Republicans have doubled down on blocking public investment, calling it "just more government spending" and even "socialism." And, they complain, construction projects help union members.

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Finance Expert Predicts We'll "Rue The Day"

Tom Tresser | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Privatization, Infrastructure Investment, Chicago Infrastructure Trust, Chicago, Rahm Emanuel Chicago Mayor, Chicago News

Chicago City Council voted 41 - 7 with two aldermen absent. Hey, that's two more nay votes than the parking meter scam got. We're making progress.

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Could We 'Fix' Detroit With $800 Billion? Let's Try!

Ned Staebler | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Infrastructure Investment, Mass Transit, Urban Policy, Economic Development, Arts Funding, Light Rail, Cities, Detroit, Marshall Plan, Detroit Renewal, Detroit News

The direct financial costs of the Iraq war were estimated to be about $800 billion, with a 'B.' That struck me as a lot of money. I started thinking: "What else could we have done with $800 billion over eight years?"

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Barbara Boxer's Transportation Bill Would Drop Environmental Criteria In Much-Touted TIFIA Loan Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Measure R, Infrastructure, Toll Roads, Infrastructure Investment, Barbara Boxer, Tifia, Antonio Villaraigosa, Transportation Funding, Map-21, James Inhofe, Public-Private Partnerships, Subway to the Sea, 30/10 Plan, Transportation Bill, Green News

NEW YORK -- A bipartisan transportation bill sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer would dramatically expand a federal program that finances "innovative" tr...

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Move the Money Home

Sen. Claire McCaskill | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Helmand Province, Kandahar, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Investment, Senate, Highways, Afghanistan, Bridges, Claire McCaskill, Afghanistan War, Politics News

If America is going to build roads and bridges, I believe they ought to be built here, not in an unstable war zone.

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Yale Profs Stress Need For Government Spending

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, William Nordhaus, Economy, John Geanakoplos, Aleh Tsyvinski, Federal Reserve, Stimulus, Bush Tax Cuts, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Investment, Video, Judith Chevalier, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment, Richard C. Levin, Investment, Yale University, Robert Shiller, Business News

As Yale University economists gathered on Thursday evening to discuss job growth strategies, many warned that a failure to act aggressively risks the ...

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Obama's 'Hipster' Republican Cabinet Secretary Hits His Own Party

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: LaHood Transportation, Infrastructure, Republicans Lahood, Video, Infrastructure Investment, Ray Lahood Transportation, Lahood Obama, Obama Administration, Obama Lahood, Lahood Republicans, Ray Lahood, Lahood Obama Administration, Lahood, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The most prominent Republican in the Obama administration is accusing GOP House members of blocking efforts to resolve the nation's pro...

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Reinvigorating Transportation in the Third Industrial Revolution

J. Byron McCormick | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Electrification, Third Industrial Revolution, Infrastructure Investment, Vehicle Electrification, Auto Industry, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, National Infrastructure, Infrastructure Improvements, Business News

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are coming, and they will be in the market on or by 2015. This is a crucial element of the Third Industrial Revolution.

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The Politics of Discrediting America

Paul A. London | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Bank, Public Works, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Investment, Economic Stimulus Package, Federal Budget Deficit, Federal Deficit, Economic Recession, Broke USA, Feder, Federal Reserve, Obama Infrastructure Plan, Politics News

Is the United States "broke"? John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House, says it is. According to Boehner, the U.S. is like a family in desp...

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The Brent Spence Bridge May Not Be 'Shovel-Ready,' But It Nevertheless Exemplifies The Need For Infrastructure Spending

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Brent-Spence Bridge, Infrastructure, Obama Brent Spence Bridge, Video, Infrastructure Investment, Brent Spence Bridge, Shovel, American Jobs Act, Obama American Jobs Act, Jobs Act, Barack Obama, Politics News

Today, President Barack Obama is travelling to Ohio to tout his plans to create jobs through infrastructure spending. He will be appearing in front of...

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Obama's Speech: The Narrative We've Been Waiting For

Miles Rapoport | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Elections 2012, Jobs, Infrastructure Investment, Unemployment, President Obama, Middle Class, Politics News

President Obama articulated a vision that Americans need to hear -- a vision of a strong, clear, and positive role for government to make the investments that secure the American Dream.

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Young Abe Lincoln on Infrastructure Investment

Dan Bimrose | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, High Speed Rail, Infrastructure Investment, Green Jobs, Education Policy, Job Creation, Politics News

Nothing ever really changes but the clothes. While in the Illinois state legislature, Abraham Lincoln was adamant about the importance of investing in infrastructure.

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Obama's Jobs Agenda For Congress: Does It Actually Create Jobs?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Congress Jobs, Economy, Elections 2012, Jobs, Free Trade, Obama Economy, Obama Job Creation, Payroll Tax, Obama Jobs, Infrastructure Investment, Congress Economy, 112th Congress, Congress Job Creation, Job Creation, Patent Reform, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- It's become almost daily practice for President Barack Obama to point out the four things he says Congress can pass now to create jobs "...

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Economic History Holds the Answers

Paul A. London | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Bank, U.S. Economy, Infrastructure Investment, National Debt, Debt Ceiling, Republican Party, Economic History, Business News

It took the United States 10 years to recover from the Crash that ended the stock speculation of the late 1920s. It may take longer to emerge from the aftermath of the housing crash of 2007.

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The GOP's Borat Budget

Bennet Kelley | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Food Safety, Infrastructure Investment, Borat, Republican Party, Paul Ryan Budget Proposal, Education Spending, Politics News

The Republican's Borat plan will create an America with a patchwork of gated emerald cities that are surrounded by vast areas that resemble the decrepit remnants of the Soviet empire.

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A Sputnik Moment for Smart Growth

Geoffrey Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Investment, National Infrastructure, President Barack Obama, Crumbling Infrastructure, State of the Union, Smart Growth, Politics News

In his State of the Union address, President Obama laid out strategies for better education, better energy production, better transportation and better job creation. All of these strategies are key to a stronger American economy.

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America's "Can't Do" Attitude

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Science, Competitiveness, Technology, Industry, Popular Mechanics, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Investment, National Infrastructure, America Infrastructure, Mechanics, Technology News

Today's youth are building new things. Look at Facebook or Google. But maybe that's a problem: too many of them are.

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The President's New Gamble

Will Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transportation, Government Spending, Infrastructure, Global Markets, Infrastructure Investment, Highways, Public Transportation, Politics News

If Republicans want to frame the economic debate as a choice between more tax cuts and rebuilding the common foundations of American prosperity, so much the better. That's one progressives can win.

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Infrastructure: The Best Bargain In The U.S. Economy

washingtonpost.com | Ezra Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Spending, Infrastructure, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Ezra Klein, Infrastructure Investment, Unemployment, Federal Aviation Administration, Roads, Construction, Schools, American Society of Civil Engineers, Business News

People say that the government should be run more like a business. So imagine you are CEO of the government. Your bridges are crumbling. Your schools ...

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Is China Serious About Major Economic Reform? Probably Not

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011

Is China wrong to make economic reforms so slowly? Probably not. Despite having become the world's second largest economy, China is still a poor country on a purchase power parity (PPP) basis.

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Biden Dances the Tough Dances

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Kingdom, Ad Melkert, Defense Policy, Middle Class, Bob Gates, Iraq, Kosovo, Middle East Peace, Iran, John Kerry, Russia, Richard Haass, Start Treaty, Nigel Sheinwald, Joseph Biden, Palestine, Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Infrastructure Investment, Labor Unions, Jobs Policies, Economic Policy, Georgia, Stanley McChrystal, Israel, James Hoffa, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, Cuba, David Cameron, Nuclear Materials Summit, Politics News

With occasional blind spots aside, Biden's policy breadth is impressive compared to virtually anyone else on the Obama team. Only Bob Gates comes close to Biden's versatility -- and even there, Biden wins hands down.

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Baucus Proposes Cutting Broadband Build Out to Fund Tax Credits: Cut Programs That Create Jobs to Fund What Doesn't?

Harold Feld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Investment, Tax Credits, Economic Stimulus Package, Broadband Infrastructure, National Infrastructure, Broadband Stimulus, Max Baucus, David Obey, Business News

Politicians, news reporters, and now voters have become obsessed with deficit reduction. Unfortunately, this "deficit cutting fever" now threatens the money previously allocated for the broadband stimulus programs.

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Aspen Ideas Festival: Ferguson, Gergen & Zuckerman Fear-monger on Deficits

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1937 Recession, Infrastructure Investment, Depression, Aspen Ideas Festival, David Gergen, Mortimer Zuckerman, Deficits, Niall Ferguson, Lynda Resnick, Jobs, Deficit Hawks, Recession, Double Dip, Fiscal Policy, Politics News

If the government doesn't create demand right now, then America is heading back into recession. That should have been a view represented more squarely -- and debated -- at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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How Do We Fund the Future of Infrastructure?

Steven R. Loranger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Air Traffic Management, Green Infrastructure, Water, Infrastructure Financing, Water Scarcity, Water Infrastructure, Itt, Water Crisis, Air Traffic Control, Nextgen, Federal Aviation Administration, Ads-B, Infrastructure Investment, Technology News

We need government and business and citizenry to work together so the critical networks in our skies--and under our feet--will meet the needs of generations to come.

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California's Model "Newocrat": David Crane's Crusade for Pension Reform and High-Speed Rail

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meg Whitman, Thomas Friedman, David Crane, Infrastructure Investment, Nasa, California High Speed Rail Authority, California Pension Reform, Jerry Brown, Health Care Reform, High Speed Rail, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Governor's Race, California High Speed Rail, Silicon Valley, Offshore Drilling, Politics News

Those who inhabit a paradigm of fiscal responsibility combined with investment in infrastructure and education are "newocrats." California has such a model "newocrat" in the person of David Crane.

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