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Private Equity’s Potential Payday From Build Back Better
Hundreds of billions of dollars are scheduled for industries private equity dominates. Advocates want to make sure workers and families benefit, not financiers.
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Infrastructure Summer: The Gottheimer Gang’s Pointless Standoff
Conservative Democrats got a guarantee that the House would vote on the infrastructure bill by late September. But that changes nothing about the process.
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Infrastructure Summer: Bipartisan Bill Boosts Corporate Giants
In broadband and other areas, the corporate dominance that has been an impediment to progress emerges unscathed.
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Infrastructure Summer: Amtrak Victorious
The much-maligned rail operator gets some respect and more than a few billion in banknotes out of the bruising infrastructure battle.
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Infrastructure Summer: In Bipartisan Bill, States Must Consider Private Financing for Major Transit Projects
A provision in the latest deal would require cities and states building transit to commission a study, usually conducted by management consultants, giving private finance ‘a fair shot.’
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Infrastructure Summer: Public Transit Gets Funded—for Now
The infrastructure deal won’t dissuade the GOP from looking for new ways to defund public transportation.
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Bipartisan Group Converges on Ag Concentration
Farms seem to be the only thing that doesn’t count as ‘infrastructure.’ But an emerging consensus agrees that anti-competitive practices have made food supply a national-security risk.
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Infrastructure Summer: The Untrained Bipartisan Deal-Makers
The senators negotiating the infrastructure package don’t have expertise in infrastructure, and it’s showing.
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Infrastructure Summer: The Senate Deadline That Isn’t One
Understanding the various contours of an imminent failed vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill today