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Columbus Dispatch Picks its Pork

…emergency. In fact, only about 5 percent of the plan’s spending is aimed at the immediate creation of jobs through infrastructure projects, such as repair and construction of roads and…

Read Jeff Madrik

…left space for experimentation. Some spend too much on social programs, others too little; some need transportation infrastructure, others improved banking; some require literacy programs, others advanced education; some need…

Donald and Deportations

…he seemed unable to explain how Trump’s infrastructure spending plan differs from President Obama’s 2009 stimulus. “Obama never had infrastructure in his stimulus,” he said. (Infrastructure spending was a major…

Guest post: Who Are the 1%?

…buy their own social infrastructure. They hire private security, they live in gated mansions on islands and other tax havens, and most notably, they buy their own justice and their…