Infrastructure
The slow death of Boston’s mass transit system
March 22, 2017Despite the Boston area’s growing population, America’s first mass transit system is beleaguered by debt, antiquated infrastructure, and privatization attempts.
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Building trades president expects Trump to keep his word on infrastructure
March 15, 2017McGarvey did not say, however, that all of the tens of thousands of jobs such a program would create would be union jobs.
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Senate approves funds to address Flint water crisis
December 9, 2016Nearly 3 years after the mass lead poisoning in Flint, the Senate finally allocated funds to fix their water infrastructure. Now it has to pass the House.
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Keystone State Senate race draws big money
November 2, 2016Democrat Katie McGinty has called for public investment in K-12 education and in rebuilding Pennsylvania’s aging infrastructure.
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America must renew its infrastructure or face decline
May 20, 2016Politics as usual won't change things. It will take a wave election, a sweeping rebuke to the obstructionist Republican Congress, for anything to happen.
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