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Center for Economic and Policy Research
PewResearchCenter Publications: The numbers are staggering. More than one in four of America's nearly 600,000 bridges need significant repairs or are burdened with more traffic than they were designed to carry, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
But that's just a cartoon. Meanwhile, Bob Riley has to face the reality.
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Congress is in the middle of a battle over the budget for fiscal year 2008, which in fact began on October 1, 2007
The Cartoon and the Reality-Bruce Tinsley's comic strip, ''Mallard Fillmore,'' is, he says, ''for the average person out there: the forgotten American taxpayer who's sick of the liberal media.'' In June, 2003, that forgotten taxpayer made an appearance in the strip, attacking his TV set with a baseball bat.
Instead of a silly argument over a "gas tax holiday," we desperately need a serious discussion about the nation's infrastructure. And there is a good legislative proposal that could be the basis for that discussion
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The last quarter century, and especially the last decade, have also moved the country rightward towards less government provision of social services
Politics and ideology are the main reasons that government has
Americans and their political leaders claim to highly value the teachers who are the key to meeting the unrelenting demands for improved public schools. Yet they continue to deny teachers adequate compensation.
Public investment is a very big deal in the U.S. economy.
For too long, we've bought the idea that government has failed us.
It's time to give people a free ride on public transit.
From the very beginning, we've been some of the biggest dreamers and most effective planners the world has ever seen. Seven years of conservative rule have devastated their legacy.
It's not just mass transit. It's bikes too
The conflict between multinational corporations' quest for profits and the simple human right to clean, safe water
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