Creating Jobs, Opportunity Through Transit Investments

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Creating Jobs, Opportunity Through Transit Investments
Posted by John Porcari on September 28, 2011 at 12:53 PM EDT

Ed. Note: Cross-posted with the Fast Lane

Since President Obama introduced the American Jobs Act a few weeks ago, Secretary LaHood has been an outspoken advocate for its passage, and with good reason.

On Monday, for example, Brian Lombardozzi, a senior policy analyst with the BlueGreen Alliance, joined me to discuss the importance of investing in job-creating transit projects. And yesterday, I had the chance to extend that conversation at a conference called "Building the Future: New York State Transit Manufacturing Conference."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/ ... nvestments