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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Tools for Assessing the Labor Market Impacts of Infrastructure Investment

Tools for Assessing the Labor Market Impacts of Infrastructure Investment
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) helped to kick off a renewed debate over the state of the nation’s infrastructure. For years, advocates for increased infrastructure spending had argued that the deterioration of the nation’s public capital stock was harming prospects for durable economic growth. When an ambitious fiscal policy response was necessitated by the steep recession beginning in 2008, the Obama administration used the opportunity to fund substantial infrastructure investments as part of its economic recovery package.

 



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