The case of the shrinking infrastructure bill
The amount allocated to transportation and infrastructure in President-elect Obama’s proposed economic stimulus bill is being crowded out by tax cuts and other measures?much to the dismay of transportation advocates. Why are transportation and infrastructure disappearing? Since Encyclopedia Brown’s not available, we turn to The Takeaway’s Andrea Bernstein who spent this week in Washington investigating at the annual conference of the Transportation Research Board.
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