Business Roundtable yesterday hosted “The Cost of Inaction: A Conversation on U.S. Infrastructure” — an event bringing together a panel of leaders from business, labor and government to focus on America’s infrastructure needs. As Infrastructure Week 2018 comes to a close, here are highlights from this in-depth discussion on problems, potential solutions and bipartisan opportunities to modernize America’s infrastructure.
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Larry Willis, President of the Transportation Trades Department at AFL-CIO, on public transportation creating more jobs.
Willis: “We have jobs that are being created, but too often — especially in city centers — they don’t have access to… public transportation or a road network that works for them. We need to fix that if we’re going to grow our economy.”