BROOKINGS INSTITUTIONMETROPOLITAN POLICY PROGRAM Infrastructure enables global trade, powers businesses, connects workers to their jobs, creates new opportunities for struggling communities, and protects America from an unpredictable natural environment. However, these critical systems are in a state of disrepair. Aging bridges, congested roads, outmoded storm and drinking water systems, and deteriorating public buildings are just […]
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Opportunities for Infrastructure Reform: Improving America’s Procurement System
Thursday, October 1st, 2015Beyond Shovel-Ready: The Extent and Impact of U.S. Infrastructure Jobs
Monday, May 19th, 2014
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This report sheds new light on the widespread contributions that infrastructure jobs make to the nation’s economy, including their importance at the metropolitan level. Since many of these jobs offer more equitable wages, require less formal education for entry, and are projected to grow over the next decade, they represent a key area of consideration for policymakers aiming to address the country’s ongoing infrastructure and jobs deficit.
Guest on The Infra Blog: Robert Puentes, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program
Monday, May 12th, 2014
Robert Puentes is a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program where he also directs the program’s Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative. The Initiative was established to address the pressing transportation and infrastructure challenges facing cities and suburbs in the United States and abroad.
“There’s no doubt that the paralysis in Washington is real and pervasive. I think we overemphasize, though, the federal role in a lot of this…I think, in fact, the federal paralysis is making states, cities, metropolitan areas experiment with a whole host of different things in order to get projects done.”
View this complete post...INVEST BUT REFORM: Establish a National Infrastructure Bank
Monday, August 26th, 2013BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Congress should establish a National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) capitalized with the proceeds from a onetime repatriation tax holiday. The primary barrier to an NIB—a targeted mechanism for financing infrastructure projects of national significance— is finding a way to build the loan fund. Untaxed overseas corporate profits, which currently provide little support to overstretched federal budgets, represent an untapped revenue source that could quickly fund an NIB, without a direct appropriation.
Chicago Infrastructure Trust: A Model For The Future?
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
In it’s relatively short life span (Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced it March 2012), the Chicago Infrastructure Trust has garnered it’s fair share of skepticism and awe. Check out what experts, journalists, and Mayor Emanuel himself, have to say on the newly formed Chicago Infrastructure Trust. “Sometimes if you want something done right, you’ve got to do […]
View this complete post...Infrastructure Bank: Tricky, But Just Do It
Friday, July 27th, 2012Transportation Issues Daily Can’t we stop wringing our hands about the concerns of establishing a National Infrastructure Bank and just do it? For years a National Infrastructure Bank has been touted as the “next greatest idea” for financing our most pressing infrastructure needs. But we don’t seem to get to the next step. I’ve been […]
View this complete post...Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America
Monday, May 16th, 2011
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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.
Video: High-Speed Rail in the United States
Thursday, August 19th, 2010@Brookings Podcast
The U.S. lags far behind Europe and Asia in the development of high-speed rail. This week @Brookings, expert Robert Puentes examines the Obama administration’s effort to build high-speed rail networks.
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