{"id":645331,"date":"2010-01-27T11:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:business.theatlantic.com,2010:\/\/3.34295"},"modified":"2010-01-27T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:40:19","slug":"obama-high-speed-rail-is-fast-track-to-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/645331","title":{"rendered":"Obama: High-Speed Rail is Fast Track to Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Obama is expected to sell an $8 billion high-speed rail project today as a jobs creator that will also provide transportation between 13 major US corridors, including Orlando-Tampa.<\/p>\n

This is in keeping with the White House’s articulated jobs strategy. It’s not just about jobs now. It’s about jobs that last, and jobs that build something that lasts even longer.<\/p>\n

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed <\/a>in
\nDecember, Christina Romer, chair of the president’s Council of Economic
\nAdvisers, rejected public works projects and explained that Obama
\nwouldn’t spend money on jobs for the sake of jobs. He wants to build
\nsomething. I expect this will be the theme of Obama’s job creation section of the State of the Union.<\/p>\n

Romer focused on tax credits for home retrofitting, which would boost
\ngreen tech jobs and construction, and infrastructure. Infrastructure
\nspending has a high multiplier effect, and as this<\/a>
\nWSJ story indicates, there’s a lot of excess capacity with construction
\ncompanies afraid that their already running out of projects from the
\nfirst round of stimulus.


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President Obama is expected to sell an $8 billion high-speed rail project today as a jobs creator that will also provide transportation between 13 major US corridors, including Orlando-Tampa. This is in keeping with the White House’s articulated jobs strategy. It’s not just about jobs now. It’s about jobs that last, and jobs that build […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2HSz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}