Building Back America Archives - The American Prospect

Bipartisan Highway to Hell—or Heaven?

by Robert Hitt August 8, 2022

State and local governments will decide if the infrastructure package makes climate change better or worse.

by Claire Wang May 16, 2022

But transit advocates and local leaders in communities of color worry that new infrastructure plans could repeat the harms of the past.

by David Dayen March 7, 2022

The umpteenth iteration of what Manchin wants out of the Biden agenda is here: some energy investments, paid for by tax and prescription drug reform.

New projects in Black and brown neighborhoods divided by the mid-century interstate highway push can be job creation engines.

A selection of the Prospect’s best work on the Biden domestic agenda this year

Or maybe the 1979 Project. Either way, Democrats are blundering into premature austerity.

It reserves money for climate adaptation measures, but lets states use a much larger pot of money to build whatever they want.

by David Dayen December 2, 2021

Yet that’s what the Build Back Better Act does with practically all of its family care programs.

They can use the savings from provisions that will likely fall out of the bill in the Senate to make some remaining programs permanent.

The Congressional Budget Office is restricted from scoring additional tax enforcement as yielding stronger tax collection.