Infrastructure Projects Can Save America's Middle Class

Joel Kotkin and David Friedman believe investing in massive infrastructure projects can save the nation's middle and working classes.

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December 4, 2006, 1:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Most disturbingly, workers losing the most economic ground are not the uneducated and unskilled but those with high school, community college and even four-year degrees...Is there any way to restore the prospects of middle- and working-class Americans? A comprehensive program to rebuild the nation's highways and bridges, upgrade its ports, construct and expand its energy lifelines and enlarge its public transportation systems could generate hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs. Admittedly, this back-to-basics strategy is not glamorous. But it has helped narrow economic inequality in the past by producing more balanced economic growth."

FULL STORY: Rebuilding the middle class

Monday, December 4, 2006 in The Los Angeles Times

Community / Economic Development Infrastructure Social / Demographics United States

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