It can be easy to forget as we travel the busy highways of Houston that homes once stood where many roads are now. But in the communities that were impacted by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, the memories and impact of displacement remain.
The New York Times has published a fine op-ed by Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University senior fellow Eli Dourado arguing that the U.S. economy needs to get a lot better at building physical stuff. He notes:
President Joe Biden marked the Senate passage of a bipartisan infrastructure plan Tuesday with a speech from the White House touting the big political win.
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