National Infrastructure

Reconstructing the American Dream

Christopher H. Lee | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Third Industrial Revolution, Jobs, Infrastructure, Job Creation, National Infrastructure Bank, National Infrastructure, Politics News

We need inspired leadership, focused on the single greatest and least partisan issue facing us today: revitalizing our economy and creating the millions of jobs we need to make America great once again.

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The Fuel Tax, Toll Roads, And Washington's Protracted Silly Season

John B. Townsend II | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Toll Roads, National Infrastructure, Fuel Tax, Excise Tax, Federal Fuel Tax, Raising Tolls, Tolls, State Fuel Tax, DC News

Like Charon the Ferryman who took the souls of the dead across the River Styx in the underworld, Virginia and Maryland are turning to tolls to build and maintain roads. How did it come to this?

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Why This Is Exactly the Time to Rebuild America's Infrastructure

Robert Reich | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Green Infrastructure, Third Industrial Revolution, National Infrastructure, Politics News

Anyone with half a brain will see this is the ideal time to borrow money from the rest of the world to put Americans to work rebuilding the nation's infrastructure. Problem is, too many in Washington have less than half a brain.

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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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Infrastructure in the Real World

Jared Bernstein | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, U.S. Economy, National Infrastructure, Economy, Business News

One critique you're beginning to hear about the infrastructure ideas in the president's jobs proposal is that the Recovery Act's infrastructure programs were some kind of bust, of never got started, or whatever. Demonstrably untrue.

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Budgetary Deceit and America's Decline

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 09.22.2011

Read More: Deficit, Economy, Budget, President Obama, Wealthy, Debt Ceiling, National Infrastructure, Debt Ceiling Negotiations, Democrats, Debt Ceiling Debate, Republicans, Politics News

I am shocked by the U.S. budget negotiations between Congress and President Obama. Every part of the budget debate in the U.S. is built on a tissue of willful deceit.

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Our Crumbling Infrastructure: This Time, It's Personal

Jared Bernstein | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Crumbling Infrastructure, Obama Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Third World America, National Infrastructure, Politics News

To ignore needed public investments based on anti-spending ideology is to create an infrastructure deficit much more worrisome and damaging to the long-term economic well-being of this nation than the federal budget deficit.

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Thousands Of Nation's Dams Reportedly 'Susceptible To Failure'

The New York Times | HENRY FOUNTAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Association of State Dam Safety Officials, National Infrastructure, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Dam, Lake Isabella Dam, Army Corps of Engineers, US News, Green News

LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. — Frank Brassell, owner of Nelda’s Diner in this town wedged between the slopes of the southern Sierra Nevada, knows his fat...

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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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'Suburban Nation'

Jeff Speck | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Suburbs, Public Schools, House, Infrastructure, Green Infrastructure, Housing Market, Suburbia, Chicago Suburbs, Housing, Suburban, National Infrastructure, Slidepollajax, Sprawl, The Suburbs, Housing Crisis, Urban Sprawl, Books News

But now, a preference has become a mandate, as sprawl has quietly been identified as a central cause behind a growing list of mounting national crises including foreign oil dependency, climate change, and the obesity epidemic.

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Helping Cities Build Better Transit Networks

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: La, Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, National Infrastructure, Transportation, Los Angeles News

MAYOR TELLS SENATE EPW COMMITTEE: PROPOSED INNOVATIVE FINANCE TOOLS WILL HELP MANY US CITIES BUILD TRANSIT NETWORKS USDOT & Senate see finance tools ...

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There is Still No Way to Fund Sustainable Infrastructure in America

Steven Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama $50 Billion, Sustainability, National Infrastructure, Business News

As long as federal infrastructure funding is dependent on the political circus that now dominates Washington, we will never see the 21st-century equivalent of the interstate highway system.

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$50B Infrastructure Plan: Make it Open Source and Transparent

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Creative Commons, Digital Transparency, Green Jobs, National Infrastructure, Jobs, Obama, Construction, Obama Infrastructure, Obama Infrastructure Speech, Obama Infrastructure Plan, Politics News

Obama noted this plan "will change the way Washington spends your tax dollars." Given it's our tax dollars, I want to make a request. Let's have an online system through which the government can articulate success to the broader population.

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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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The Moment for Public-Private Partnerships Is Now

Gov. David A. Paterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Recession, Infrastructure, Ed Rendell, David Paterson, National Infrastructure, Economy, President Obama, Private-Public Partnerships, Crumbling Infrastructure, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Recession, Politics News

If we are to finance and build a world-class infrastructure for America, we must seek new solutions. And a promising solution is at hand: public-private partnerships.

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Peaceful Revolution: Investing in Our Human Infrastructure

Riane Eisler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Green Jobs, Obama Stimulus, Women's Issues, Children, Economy, Creating Jobs, A Peaceful Revolution, Working Women, Infrastructure, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Stimulus Package, Health Care, Elderly, Women, Baby Boomers, Poverty, National Infrastructure, Economic Crisis, Elderly Americans, Stimulus, Investing, Early Education, Green Infrastructure, Obama Working Women, Women's Health, Childcare, Economic Stimulus, Children's Health, Healthcare, Politics News

The Real Wealth of our Nation is Its People Over half a million people lost their jobs last month. There's no question we need a job-creation plan. T...

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The Traffic of Pay-to-Play Politics

Monica Youn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: State Budgets, Money, National Infrastructure, Budget, Secretary of Transportation, Clintons, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Budget, Transportation, Infrastructure, Kennedys, Illinois Senate, Bush Administration, John Fritchey, Rod Blagojevich, Transportation Department, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Federal Highway Fund, Illinois, Blagojevich Corruption, Ray Lahood Obama, Transportration Secretary Ray LaHood, Ray Lahood, Ray Lahood Department of Transportation, Politics News

The Bush Administration's DOT succeeded in knocking a sizeable hole in Illinois' ban on pay-to-play deals that the state Senate had attempted to pass in the wake of the Blagojevich scandal.

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House Stimulus Bill Gives Illinois $1.8 Billion For Infrastructure

Progress Illinois | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House Infrastructure Bill, Economic Stimulus Package, Illinois Infrastructure, Illinois Stimulus Funds, National Infrastructure, Chicago News

According to a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee report released today, the current version of their stimulus plan includes $1.8 billi...

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Create Jobs Now, but Build Skills for the Future

Julian L. Alssid and Davis Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Competition, Workforce, U.S. Economy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Infrastructure, Global Economy, College, Economy, National Infrastructure, Economic Crisis, Jobs, Skilled US Workers, Barack Obama, Business News

Unless the stimulus can be leveraged to revitalize our education and workforce systems, the downturn will likely accelerate the recent trend in which the only good jobs go to those who have training beyond high school.

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Peaceful Revolution: Childcare and Construction

Robert Drago | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karen Shellenback, National Infrastructure, Economic Crisis, Childcare Jobs, Green Energy, Pink Policy, Construction Workers Wages, Momsrising, Obama Economic Recovery Plan, Barbara Bergmann, Nancy Folbre, Green Infrastructure, Platform for Progress, Randy Albelda, Julie Matthaei, Childcare, Direct Care Alliance, Childcare Workers Wages, Construction Workers, Shawn Fremstad, Economic Recovery, Education Reform, Teachers, Ipetition, Green Energy Economy, Green Policy, Peri, Nwlc, Politics News

We need to spend federal money now to help jump-start employment and incomes, but once we are spending money, we should devote it to something worthwhile.

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Red vs. Green Infrastructure

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green, Infrastructure, Green Infrastructure, Green Economy, Green Living, Green Jobs, Green Energy, National Infrastructure, Politics News

Obama is preparing a Christmas list for us in the form of a massive stimulus package but his promises of support for green industries are not included in the infrastructure package.

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Bridge Project Spans Gap Between Business and Green

Green Inc. | Libby Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Construction, President Obama, Vancouver, Green News, Portland, Washington, National Infrastructure, Economy, Bridges, Mexico, Oregon, Columbia River Crossing Project, Traffic, Green Infrastructure, President-Elect Barack Obama, Development, Columbia River, Transportation, Greenhouse Gas, Automobiles, Emissions Reduction, Pollution, Climate Change, Architecture, Infrastructure Investment, Barack Obama, Columbia River Crossing Coalition, Government Policy, Candada, Portland Oregon, Green News

President-elect Barack Obama's recent promise to make "the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the fede...

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Leadership, Strategy, and Experts. More lessons for Obama.

John O'Neil | Posted 05.25.2011

The nation must boldly rebuild to avoid the perils of a dangerously gyrating world where yesterday's swaggering certainty is tomorrow's worn out wisdom.

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A Whistle-Stop to Opportunity

Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Inauguration, National Infrastructure, President Obama, Obama Administration, Small-Business Entrepeneurs, Job-Training Programs, Obama Inauguration Day, Low-Income Communities, Infrastructure, Vice President Biden, Obama Economic Plan, Obama Recovery Package, Obama Economic Policy, Obama Train Trip, Obama Train, Obama Biden Railroad Trip, Obama Biden Inaugural Railroad Trip, Politics News

We need smarter, more targeted spending. We must invest in the people, places and projects that will spread the most opportunity to communities that need it.

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