Stimulus and Infrastructure

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is encouraging all members to call their Congressional representatives and senators to push for greater infrastructure dollars in the current stimulus proposals. The roughly $800 billion proposal, as it currently stands, does not have nearly as much infrastructure money as expected. For example, senators such as Barbara Boxer (D-CA) are proposing to use $50 billion not spent in the first year of stimulus for future transportation and water infrastructure improvement. Read more in ASCE’s alert.