15 Million Infrastructure Jobs: An Economic Shot in the Arm to the COVID-19 Recession
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A $2 trillion jobs plan (of which $1.5 trillion will go to infrastructure) from the Biden-Harris administration would be good medicine to nurse the economic wounds inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The infrastructure plan would create or save 15 million jobs over 10 years and would increase the share of infrastructure jobs from 11% to 14% of all jobs in this country, temporarily reviving the blue-collar economy.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1062943Date Published
2021Publisher
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
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