Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Spending on infrastructure will help employment.
Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.
We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.
Infrastructure projects create a lot of demand for material, services and manpower. It is a chain reaction; if the infrastructure growth slows down, it will hit overall demand. The supply side has to keep increasing to sustain growth.
We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.
Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.
When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.
I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure... and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.
We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.
Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already employed.