A Challenge To American Business: Fight For Infrastructure Spending, Or Suffer The Consequences

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With a $2 trillion infrastructure package on the line, American business needs to step up the fight for public infrastructure spending—or suffer the consequences

, and all-around better infrastructure projects rang across dozens of panels, events, and in the media.

And only truly inclusive investment in our infrastructure will yield the economic, social, and environmental gains that this country needs. Businesses and their workers are feeling the impact. Chronic underinvestment in transit means that commuters waste an average ofand millions of dollars in fuel stuck in traffic. Extreme weather events have taken their toll on our reservoirs. Dam and levee failures have led to massive evacuations, contaminated drinking water systems, and have and put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk.

By tying infrastructure investments to enforceable equity, inclusion, and job quality measures, we can create and expand access to high-quality jobs for people from marginalized communities, especially those who face barriers to employment.

 

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