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3 ways $2 trillion for infrastructure can fight inequality too

  • Written by Steven Pressman, Professor of Economics, Colorado State University

Imagine you have US$2 trillion to spend on patching up America’s crumbling roads, levees and other infrastructure. What would you fix first?

The nation’s needs are great. The American Society of Civilian Engineers’ latest report, from 2017, highlighted derailing trains, roads full of potholes, levees breaching, bridges...

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