The White House effort on trucking is too focused on finding more drivers and not focused enough on making trucking jobs better.
Transportation
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Those Electrifying Speculators
Electric-vehicle companies, often raising capital through dubious mergers, have a problem with the truth, and it’s a problem for all of us on this planet.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Flying Blind
The fatal fragmentation of private information in the global supply chain system
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Incoherence of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
It reserves money for climate adaptation measures, but lets states use a much larger pot of money to build whatever they want.
Posted inTransportation
As Buttigieg Eyes a Presidential Run, His DOT Is Floundering
The transportation secretary has a major role to play in easing the supply chain crisis. Pete Buttigieg isn’t doing the job.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Job Gets a Foreman
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is Biden’s pick to make sure the project rolls out as intended.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Supply Chain Mess
A deeper cure will take years, but Biden is finding creative ways to get things unstuck.
Posted inWorking in America
The Bus Driver Strikes
After a long slump, more drivers are winning the right to collective bargaining. Now, the threat of privatization looms.
Posted inTransportation
Unfinished Business East of the River
The collapse of a pedestrian bridge in Washington reignites debates about reconnecting communities, racial equity, and what comes next.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Pelosi Tries to Bulldoze Progressives on the Infrastructure Bill
But she claims it must pass to avoid an expiration of highway funding. That’s just not true.