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Obama Slams GOP Priorities

AP | Posted 04.30.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is rallying union workers by painting a bleak portrait of America's infrastructure. He blames Republicans fo...

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Obama's Not So New Deal

Tom Silva | Posted 04.28.2012

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Tom Silva

The truth is that top-down government spending is as old as capitalism and not an invention that starts with Roosevelt and the WPA of the 1930s.

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Matt Sledge

Infrastructure Problems In U.S. Go Far Beyond Dollars

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.03.2012

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NEW YORK -- When travelers from abroad come to this city, the financial and cultural capital of the world's richest nation, two dilapidated and depres...

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Arthur Delaney

Jobless Protesters Occupy Mitch McConnell's Office As Congress Dithers On Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Roughly 30 jobless protesters from D.C. neighborhoods occupied Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's office in the Russell Senate Off...

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Why It's Time to Declare War on Unemployment

Marc H. Morial | Posted 11.14.2011

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Marc H. Morial

Just as Lyndon Johnson would declare War on Poverty, just Nixon would declare War on Drugs, just as Bush would declare War on Terrorism, it is time for this country declare War on Unemployment.

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Sam Stein

Republican Jobs Proposal Gets Law Wrong, Transportation Department Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.09.2011

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WASHINGTON -- One of the Republican Party's suggestions for how to create infrastructure jobs without spending a dime is unlikely to produce much of a...

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Sam Stein

Obama To Call For Extension Of Transportation Funds Currently Set To Expire

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As part of an effort to spur additional job creation, the Obama administration will push Congress to keep surface transportation spendin...

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Our Crumbling Infrastructure: This Time, It's Personal

Jared Bernstein | Posted 08.02.2011

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Jared Bernstein

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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A Sputnik Moment for Smart Growth

Geoffrey Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Geoffrey Anderson

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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Will Obama's Plan for Fixing America's Transportation Infrastructure Be Enough?

Robert Puentes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Puentes

President Obama's plan for fixing America's badly-worn transportation infrastructure is not, as some critics have asserted, simply throwing more taxpayer money down the rabbit hole.

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Michael Bennet Opposed Obama's Proposed $50 Billion Infrastructure

POLITICO | MEREDITH SHINER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), a politically vulnerable Democratic senator, is bailing on President Barack Obama's $50 billion infrastructure spending...

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What a Second Stimulus Should -- and Shouldn't -- Look Like

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Sirota

Sure, it's great that the president is talking about spending $50 billion on infrastructure. But when $50 billion is put up against double that amount in corporate tax cuts, it seems the administration's priorities are all screwed up.

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

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cameron Sinclair

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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Obama Assails GOP, Promotes Jobs In Labor Day Speech

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that will exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and...

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Sam Stein

Obama Touts Main Street Success As Wall Street Plunges

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration hosted an event at the Department of Transportation on Tuesday to mark the first case of stimulus money creating infrastructu...

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Obama Budget Has $5 Billion For Infrastructure Bank

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. President Barack Obama called for the creation of a National Infrastructure Bank in his budget released on Thursday, saying it would "expand and ...

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What Should Be On Illinois' Transportation Projects Wish List?

Chicago Tribune | John McCarron | Posted 05.25.2011

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[T]he Illinois congressional delegation is pulling together a wish list of public works projects to be part of the $800 billion stimulus package sough...

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What's Missing From Obama's Infrastructure Plan

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harry Shearer

Friends of mine assure me that this is a stealth priority -- New Orleans is an issue that Obama cares so deeply about he dare not mention it yet.

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Obama's Economic Plan Blend Of Old-School Dems And Defense Against GOP

Wall Street Journal | Bob Davis and Amy Chozick | Posted 05.25.2011

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FLINT, Mich. -- Sen. Barack Obama shed new light on his economic plans for the country, saying he would rely on a heavy dose of government spending to...

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