Infrastructure

Steel job layoffs highlight need for new trade, infrastructure policies

April 1, 2016 By Bruce Bostick

Over the past year, U.S. Steel has announced hundreds of layoffs in its workforce across the country.

Rebuild America’s infrastructure

February 25, 2016 By Rev. Jesse Jackson

We didn't need the horrors of children at risk from fouled lead pipes in Flint, Michigan to know that our infrastructure is dangerously decrepit.

Liberal election victory in Canada holds lessons for Americans

October 26, 2015 By C.J. Atkins

Liberals campaigned on making investments in infrastructure to create jobs, raise income taxes on the richest Canadians to fund services for those at the bottom, and democratize the political system.

Activist group wins improvements in “Call-A-Ride”

July 21, 2015 By Chris Worth

The Coalition for Truth in Independence held a press conference to highlight recent successes around the "Ride with Respect Campaign."

Unions and allies get support for gas tax hike for highway-mass transit funding

June 24, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

The legislation is important both for jobs creation and to repair and replace the nation's crumbling infrastructure and to repair, replace and upgrade bus and subway systems.