This is the first in a series of entries celebrating infrastructure achievements in the United States.
View this complete post...Archive for the ‘Employment’ Category
Great American Infrastructure: The Hoover Dam
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011A 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
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…
80 Million Jobs Rely on Transportation- spread the word!
Friday, May 27th, 2011
“Nearly 80 million American jobs in tourism, manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, agriculture and forestry, general construction, mining, retailing and wholesaling rely on highways, bridges and rail systems every day…So it makes sense to get working on passage of the overdue highway/transit investment bill. A lot of working Americans are depending on it.”
-Transportation Construction Coalition
Highways for LIFE: A Daunting Challenge
Thursday, May 26th, 2011Whether you manage a small dairy, or a large multinational corporation…or if you drive an 18-wheeler, delivering goods across our nation…the tremendous highway transportation system in our country impacts everybody, every day. For me, that impact’s always gone double. You see, I spent a 34-year career working for the Department of Transportation right here in […]
View this complete post...Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America
Monday, May 16th, 2011
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Transportation leaders should make access to jobs an explicit priority in their spending and service decisions, especially given the budget pressures they face. Metro leaders should coordinate strategies regarding land use, economic development, and housing with transit decisions in order to ensure that transit reaches more people and more jobs efficiently. And federal officials should collect and disseminate standardized transit data to enable public, private, and non-profit actors to make more informed decisions and ultimately maximize the benefits of transit for labor markets.
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and Employment
Friday, May 13th, 2011
CENTER FOR TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
This report explains why TOD is not only about housing, and conscious planning for employment is important in thinking about the effectiveness of transit investment and the market for transit-oriented housing.
$2 Billion High-Speed Rail Investment
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011The Department’s Federal Railroad Administration selected 15 states and Amtrak to receive $2.02 billion for 22 high-speed intercity passenger rail projects as part of a nationwide network that will connect 80 percent of Americans to high-speed rail in 25 years.
View this complete post...A Fraction of the Jobs: A Case Study of the Job Creation Impact of Completed Coal-Fired Power Plants between 2005 and 2009
Friday, April 8th, 2011
THE OCHS CENTER FOR METROPOLITAN STUDIES
Proponents of coal-burning power plants have suggested that the counties where they are located can reap an economic windfall through construction and permanent jobs. Their case is largely based on an economic modeling process that often relies on assumptions that are established with a high degree of uncertainty. Very few communities evaluate after the fact whether actual jobs were created.
Guest on The Infra Blog: Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
Steven C.F. Anderson, Managing Director, InfrastructureUSA, spoke with Hon. Scott M. Stringer at Banking on the Future, a conference presented by the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, in cooperation with Bernard L. Schwartz, Congressman Steve Israel and the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute. The event took place on March 14th, at the William and Anita Newman Conference Center, Baruch College, City University of New York.
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Francisca Coronado Porchas, National Coordinator, Transit Riders for Public Transportation
Friday, March 25th, 2011
Francisca Coronado Porchas is the National Coordinator for the Transit Riders for Public Transportation.
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