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A Consensus Emerges: Build, and Build Big

By Eric Lotke
November 26th, 2008

Stimulus plans don’t mean tax rebates worth a few tanks of gas and a restaurant dinner. Stimulus plans means new roads and bridges, aid to states so they won’t lay off nurses and teaching assistants, and a down payment on a new energy economy with windmills and commuter rail. read more »

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Orders of Magnitude

By Eric Lotke
June 10th, 2008

How far away is Congress from meaningfully addressing the country's infrastructure crisis? Based on testimony at a Capitol Hill hearing this week, 1.59 trillion steps away. read more »

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