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Building America’s Future: Falling Apart and Falling Behind

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Building America’s Future’s just released a report entitled, Falling Apart and Falling Behind. InfrastructureUSA’s Managing Director Steve Anderson discussed the findings with former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell, a Co-Chair of President of Building America’s Future’s Educational Fund (BAF), and Marcia Hale, President of BAF.

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Will Negotiations on the Transportation Bill End Up in a Stalemate?

Monday, August 8th, 2011

Innovation NewsBriefs Vol. 22, No. 22 “I don’t see any momentum for more compromise after this deal than there was before. Maybe less.” Mark Halperin on MSNBC. “I’m going to use every lever possible…whatever it takes to get long-term authorization.” Rep. John Mica, Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (quoted in WSJ, August […]

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Building America’s Future: Falling Apart and Falling Behind

Monday, August 8th, 2011
BAF: Falling Apart and Falling Behind

BUILDING AMERICA’S FUTURE

Rebuilding America’s economic foundation is one of the most important missions we face in the 21st century. Our parents and grandparents built America into the world’s leading economic superpower. We have a responsibility to our own children and grandchildren to strengthen—not squander —that inheritance, and to pass on to them a country whose best days are still ahead.

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Why We Need Infrastructure Investment

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Written by: Bruce Josten

For the sake of near- and long-term job creation, stronger economic growth, and enhanced U.S. competitiveness, the Chamber strongly supports robust surface transportation reauthorization legislation that addresses revenue shortfalls and includes necessary and urgent policy and program reforms.

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How Might Transportation Funding be Impacted by Debt Deal?

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

TRANSPORTATION ISSUES DAILY

Whether by the hands of the new fiscal commission or through the alternative automatic cuts, federal transportation funding is going to decline dramatically compared to recent years. The Senate transportation proposal, which counted on a $12 billion infusion of general funding, suddenly looks just a little less attainable. So too is the prospect of a better-funded bill in two years, if Congress doesn’t pass a bill this year.

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Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project (TRIP) Bonds

Friday, July 29th, 2011
How Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project Bonds Work

Looking to leverage private investment and an untapped market for tax credit bonding to rebuild America’s transportation infrastructure, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) have introduced legislation to create a tax credit bond program dedicated to transportation infrastructure. Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project bonds or TRIPs will be a financing tool to fund the rebuilding of the nation’s crumbling transportation infrastructure.

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Chairman Mica Passes on the Offensive

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

In a blistering letter to Thomas Donohue, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Rep, John Mica, Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, scolded the Chamber — and indirectly other critics of the proposed House transportation bill— for being “unable to recognize the reality that bankrupting the Highway Trust Fund and ignoring long overdue policy reforms are no longer options.”

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Transportation Community’s Response to House Republicans’ Reauthorization Proposal

Monday, July 11th, 2011

On Thursday, July 7th, Republican leaders of the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure submitted a six-year transportation reauthorization proposal. The transportation community responded with mixed opinions, but many are concerned.

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Building Communities of Opportunity: Highlights from President Obama’s 2012 Budget

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

POLICYLINK
To inform the 2012 budget debate, this document examines primarily two broad arenas—infrastructure investments to grow the economy and connect people to opportunity, and programs that build healthy, stable neighborhoods. These are both critical components in promoting communities rich with opportunity that enable everyone to thrive. We hope that this document will inform the decision-making process of policymakers and fuel the advocacy efforts of those committed to improving the life prospects for our nation‟s struggling communities.

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A NEW RETROFIT INDUSTRY: An analysis of the job creation potential of tax incentives for energy efficiency in commercial buildings and other components of the Better Buildings Initiative

Monday, June 20th, 2011
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POLITICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
The pursuit of energy efficiency in commercial and multifamily buildings would lead to more than 114,000 new jobs in many industries hard hit by the recession. The President’s Better Buildings Initiative seeks to tap into that job creation potential with a suite of policies designed to encourage the pursuit of energy efficiency…

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