The Merits of More Spending on Infrastructure

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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

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clangford7@elearn.volstate.edu wrote re: The Merits of More Spending on Infrastructure
on 09-11-2010 5:29 PM

I agree with Puentes in that the jobs need to be long term, but anything, even temp, jobs are better than nothing with so much unemployment.  Even if they are considered temp jobs, with as much road work and other infrastructure work that needs to be done nationwide, those temp jobs could last for years and hopefully give time for more non government jobs to be created.

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