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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

With the unemployment rate just reported at 9.5%, the highest in 26 years, the subject of massive job creation as a result of significant infra repair efforts demands our greater attention.  Doesn’t history guide us to the potential benefits that could result as we address two crises?  We have an urgent need for good jobs […]

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Job Impacts of Spending on Public Transportation: An Update

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
“Looking across the entire $47 billion spent on public transportation in the US each year, there is an average rate of approximately 36,000 jobs per billion dollars of public transportation spending (i.e., 36 jobs per million dollars of spending).”

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KEEP OUR EYES ON THE BULL’S EYE; NOT THE BULL

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Claude Shostal, past President of Regional Plan Association, is a member of the faculty at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate.

As we watch our 401 accounts struggle to reach half of what they once were or, worse, watch the weeks of eligibility for unemployment benefits dwindle, it may help to contemplate the few silver linings to our recent economic woes. One is surely the emerging national consensus and conversation over the importance of investing in our infrastructure.

This wonky, unsexy word, “infrastructure,” usually cannot be found in the national policy discussion. These days, it is prominent and being linked to that very sexy and provocative word: stimulus. It could be a powerful combination if we do not allow politics as usual to govern how we put this combination to work.

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