Exasperated Infrastructures

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Joe Biden's Infrastructure Plan: Infrastructures Week Edition

Everyone's got their own take, but mine is unsurprisingly focused on the _how_ of it all. Also: climate justice is the key to the success of this plan.

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Apr 01, 2021
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Did Biden Just Make Everything Normal Again? | The New Yorker

My favorite part of Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal is his administration’s treatment of the word—and concept—of infrastructure. Sure the numbers are large, but still not staggeringly large out of context ($2 trillion is just 1/10 of the US’ GNP; but it’s almost half of our annual operating budget. It seems Goldilocksed.) We haven’t attempted a public works project this big, ever—it’s bigger than ARRA and the New Deal combined, in 2021 dollars. The sheer size of this deal should not matter alone. We should be asking what outcomes we’re expecting and how we measure success.

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