In his Labor Day speech Monday, the President announced a plan to pump $50 billion into infrastructure projects across the country. Brookings Senior Fellow Robert Puentes thinks this is a good move, as he believes bridges, roads, and railways are all in need of significant repairs. But he also wants the government to have a plan for using infrastructure projects to increase long term employment, and not just temporary jobs:
Read more from Puentes on the federal government's infrastructure policies here.
Posted
09-09-2010 11:05 AM
by
Graham Griffith