Imagine riding from Philadelphia to New York in only 37 minutes, or from Boston to Washington, D.C., in just three hours on a …
infrastructure
Back on Tracks
Freight rail’s renaissance is powering the U.S. economy even without Uncle Sam’s help
Jumpstart Nation: The Clinton Global Initiative Tackles America’s Jobs Crisis
The Clinton Global initiative was created in 2005 to “inspire, connect, and empower a community of global leaders to forge solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.” Seven years ago, when developed economies were …
What President Obama’s Jobs Plan Might Look Like
While the economy teeters on a cliff, Americans want to know what's inside President Obama's new jobs plan. Here are a few good guesses.
The (missing) road work/jobs connection
I’ve read through that headline-grabbing AP report on the impact of stimulus-funded road and bridge spending on employment about five times, and I’m still not entirely clear what the AP’s reporters discovered. But I think it’s this: That there was no correlation between the movement of county unemployment rates and the presence or …
