Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Jobs

Boxer Changes Her Tone, Adopts a Fighting Stance

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 14, 2012 | 1 Comment

The transportation bill conference committee negotiations have been difficult and contentious, by all accounts — all except Senator Barbara Boxer’s account. The EPW chair has been optimistic when others have been bitter, consistently focusing on how much the two sides agree rather than the places where they’re still far apart. But that seemed to change with […]

Five Ex-Secretaries Map Out a Communications Strategy For Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 24, 2012 | 3 Comments

If 80 percent of the American people agree that federal infrastructure investment will create jobs, and two-thirds say better infrastructure is important, why is the call for a robust transportation bill being made in whispers? And why is Congress already two and a half years late in producing one? There are many political reasons — […]

Thursday Job Market

By Streetsblog | Dec 15, 2011 | No Comments

Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy? Post a listing on the Streetsblog Jobs Board and reach our national audience of dedicated readers. Looking for a job? Here are this week’s listings: Grassroots and Outreach Fellow, Safe Routes to School National Partnership, Anywhere The Safe […]

Is Transpo Funding Fundamentally a PR Problem? Five Ex-DOT Chiefs Discuss

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 2, 2011 | 3 Comments

How can you convince Americans that transportation is important enough to invest in? That’s the question that brought together five former U.S. Transportation Secretaries this week at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. James Burnley was deputy secretary and then secretary under President Reagan. He took the position that “75 percent” of the public “gives […]

Is the House Democrats’ New “Buy America” Jobs Bill Just a Political Ploy?

By Ben Goldman | Dec 1, 2011 | 20 Comments

With no movement on a highway bill from House T&I Chairman John Mica until after Congress reconvenes in January, Ranking Member Nick Rahall held a press conference today to introduce the “Invest in American Jobs Act of 2011” [PDF]. The act would strengthen the “Buy America” requirements already in place on transit, rail, highway, bridge, […]

Two Infrastructure Jobs Bills Die in Senate

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 4, 2011 | No Comments

Two competing versions of a transportation-related job creation bill went down yesterday in the Senate. The first, the Rebuild America Jobs Act (S.1769), was a Democratic proposal, modeled on President Obama’s job creation bill, to invest $50 billion for infrastructure and another $10 billion as seed money to create a new national infrastructure bank. Given Republican […]

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