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A New Economic Analysis of Infrastructure Investment

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
President Obama’s FY 2013 Budget proposes a bold plan to renew and expand America’s infrastructure. The plan includes a $50 billion up-front investment connected to a $476 billion six-year reauthorization of the surface transportation program and the creation of a National Infrastructure Bank. In support of this commitment, the Department of the Treasury, with the Council of Economic Advisers, has updated our analysis of the economic effects of infrastructure investment.

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Export Nation 2012: How U.S. Metropolitan Areas Are Driving National Growth

Friday, March 9th, 2012

BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
The Great Recession reset the world economic map. Suddenly, with the bulk of the world’s economic growth transferred beyond the borders of a recession-mired West and into emerging markets, American metropolitan areas and the nation as a whole were left to cast about for new sources of growth.

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Talking Infrastructure with Engineers at ASCE’s 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference

Friday, November 11th, 2011

This is the first in a series of posts.
Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director of InfrastructureUSA speaks with several engineers attending the American Society of Civil Engineers 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference held last month in Memphis, Tennessee:

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MAP-21 – Possible Impacts of Revised Core Transportation Programs

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Transportation Issues Daily The MAP-21 proposal would consolidate the current seven “core” highway programs into five. Core highway programs are the primary programs through which funding is allocated to states and on to local jurisdictions. I’ve taken a stab at the possible impacts of the consolidation. If you’re analyzing the bill and have additions or [...]

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Newsflash: Transportation Project Creates Jobs, Stimulates Economy

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Transportation Issues Daily One of the most frustrating and puzzling arguments against investing in transportation projects is that it doesn’t really have a positive impact on jobs and economic recovery.  Here’s the latest example of how investing in infrastructure does have a positive impact. In Washington state rural county with an unemployment rate of 13%, [...]

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Clarifying Reauthorization Bill Math

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Innovation NewsBriefs Vol. 22, No. 29 An October 26 letter from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee to Rep. John Mica (R-FL), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee has brought to the surface the confusion over funding of the multi-year surface transportation authorization. Sen. [...]

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The Road to Good Jobs: Making Training Work

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

TRANSPORTATION EQUITY NETWORK
As joblessness continues to afflict millions of Americans, the national conversation has turned to investments in transportation infrastructure as a path to job creation. Calls to invest in our crumbling highways and bridges and cash-strapped transit systems have come from the AFLCIO and U.S. Chamber of Commerce alike. President Obamaʼs American Jobs Act proposes $50 billion in immediate spending on transportation infrastructure, while Congressional Republicans are reportedly seeking ways to boost revenue levels in their proposed federal transportation authorization act.

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The American Jobs Act

Monday, September 19th, 2011

THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT
The American people understand that the economic crisis and the deep recession weren’t created overnight and won’t be solved overnight. The economic security of the middle class has been under attack for decades. That’s why President Obama believes we need to do more than just recover from this economic crisis – we need to rebuild the economy the American way, based on balance, fairness, and the same set of rules for everyone from Wall Street to Main Street.

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Economic Expansion, Energy Independence and Environmental Efficiency: Renewables in the South

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

SOUTHERN LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE

As states emerge from the Great Recession the deepest broadest and sharpest economic downturn experienced in the United States since the Great Depression state policymakers confront an unenviable set of obstacles. Beyond the multiplicity of short-term challenges associated with balancing their states’ budgets as a result of the steep drop in revenues, policymakers also are struggling with a more structural weakness in our economy: the rapidly eroding manufacturing sector in the United States.

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How Will House Allocate 2012 Transportation Spending?

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Transportation Issues Daily The House draft appropriations bill (read the Subcommittee’s summary) was published late Wednesday and is scheduled to be acted on Thursday at 4pm (Eastern). The proposal reduces Amtrak operating subsidies by about 40%, provides zero funding for high-speed and intercity passenger rail capital grants, zero funding for a new TIGER program, and [...]

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