Rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure

    President-elect Barack Obama announced his intention over the weekend to create 2.5 million new jobs by using American workers to rebuild roads and bridges, modernize schools and create more sources of alternative energy. In this hour of Radio Times we talk with EMIL FRANKEL of the Bipartisan Policy Center and ROBERT PUENTES of the Brookings Institution about our ailing infrastructure – how we can repair it and finance the work. Listen to the mp3

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