Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already employed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.
In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.
We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.
Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
We have to reverse spending trends that are not job-creating.
We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.
It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
Spending on infrastructure will help employment.