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…
…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…
…infrastructure–essential for business–crumbles in ruins. McCain and Graham urged the Senate to reject the sequester of military funds, fearful it would “set off a swift decline of the United States…
…XII: Other transportation 2012 $1.8 bn, 2013-2019 $6.4 bn Almost all of this spending is in categories heavily weighted towards large scale and so long term infrastructure projects. If we…
…need to create new ones. At the same time, our infrastructure is crumbling and we need to rebuild it. I had already proposed creating a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank, funded…
…and Infrastructure Committee voted to pass the Sewage Right to Know bill (HR 2452) and send it to the full House for consideration. The bill now has the support of…
…us think of when we think of capital: machinery, equipment, structures (including infrastructure), and urban land. But that still left a lot of wealth to explain. “As soon as you…
…roads, ports and other infrastructure is a centerpiece of that effort … A bond issue in the $25 billion-$27 billion range would far outstrip a $10.3 billion infrastructure bond proposal…
…the media and public–talk about deficits and misunderstand the relative importance of failures to invest in physical and capital infrastructure (roads, education…) versus the relative unimportance of the US government…
…new level. But then two commentators (Axt113 & Mike Meyer) put forth this idea… “Are you arguing that had we invested in infrastructure to the amount the ASCE had called…
…the Postal Service away from defining mission as infrastructure into something more akin to a Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE), a bastardized construction that confuses corporate imperatives with governmental functions. The…