Yellen, a longtime deficit hawk, has made clear that the infrastructure investments should be paid for. That could prove hazardous to negotiations with Congress.
American Jobs Plan
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Can Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Save the Superfund Program?
For decades, depleted funds and mounting backlogs have left hundreds of communities with lingering toxins. The infrastructure plan could be an environmental salvation.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden Proposes Government Actually Try to Create Broadband Competition
The broadband proposal in the American Jobs Act prioritizes allowing utilities and co-ops to provide a public option to compete with telecom monopolies. This would be a critical step.
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What the Mine Workers Need to Emerge in Sunlight
Today on TAP: Plus, the annual Hillman Prizes in journalism
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Government’s Unused Power to Regulate Nursing Homes
Let’s not give more taxpayer money to corrupt nursing home operators until we replace them with caregivers who place care over profits.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Cleaning Up Electricity
A federal energy efficiency and clean electricity standard is doable, but getting one through Congress won’t be easy.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Biden’s Promising, Problematic Plan to Plug Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells
The proposed infrastructure package devotes $16 billion to cleaning up abandoned fossil fuel development, but it may serve as a bailout for irresponsible oil companies.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Corporate Merger Aims to Build a Water Privatization Giant
Veolia and Suez plan a $15.4 billion deal that would create the largest private water firm in the world.
Posted inTAP
Paying for Biden’s Program—Time to Get More Creative
Today on TAP: Alternatives to raising taxes
