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States struggle for infrastructure financing (access required)

Published: September 29, 2011
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The Hoover Dam, one of the world’s great engineering feats, is marred by roads with traffic so jammed along the Nevada-Arizona border that it tells a different story about the political will to maintain 21st century infrastructure.

Construction industry fights for more federal highway money

Published: May 13, 2010
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By Sean Ryan Construction industry representatives want every penny of a proposed federal tax on carbon producers to go to the Highway Trust Fund. But according to a draft bill unveiled by Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., the industry would have to make do with only $6.25 billion. The federal government needs [...]