President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan the largest in American history is designed to fix the nation’s crumbling roads, bridges and railroads while kick-starting the economy at a time when many Americans are still out of work.
Repair the Crumbling Infrastructure of the American Labor Movement
Biden’s plan would allocate billions to transportation and manufacturing. But will it also do what’s necessary to build back the country’s unions?
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A former public affairs aide for the AFL-CIO once told me he
spent most of his day fielding queries from conservatives. Most liberals outside
the Rust Belt lost interest in organized labor decades ago; only now are they
starting, tentatively, to think again about unions’ role in creating the sort
of society they want. Conservatives, by contrast, never lost interest in “Big
Governor Ned Lamont’s full budget address on Wednesday was as follows:
Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Senator Kelly, Representative Candelora, members of the General Assembly, Lt. Governor Bysiewicz and the people of the great State of Connecticut.
As your governor, one of my top priorities has been to get Connecticut’s fiscal house in order. My first stop two years ago was the state’s budget. For decades, Connecticut was defined by one fiscal crisis after another, which is why when I spoke to you at my first budget address, I challenged us to pass an honestly balanced budget on time.
Governor Ned Lamont gave a biennial budget address for the 2022-2023 fiscal year.
Credit: AP
FILE- In this Feb. 5, 2020 file photo, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont delivers the State of the State address at the State Capitol in Hartford, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File) Author: FOX61 Staff Updated: 12:01 PM EST February 10, 2021
HARTFORD, Conn Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Senator Kelly, Representative Candelora, members of the General Assembly, Lt. Governor Bysiewicz and the people of the great State of Connecticut.
As your governor, one of my top priorities has been to get Connecticut’s fiscal house in order. My first stop two years ago was the state’s budget. For decades, Connecticut was defined by one fiscal crisis after another. Which is why when I spoke to you at my first budget address, I challenged us to pass an honestly balanced budget on time.