Joe Biden taking $973 bn bipartisan infrastructure deal on the road
US President Joe Biden will look to sell voters on the economic benefits of the USD 973 billion infrastructure package while in Wisconsin on Tuesday, hoping to boost the bipartisan agreement that is held together in large part by the promise of millions of new jobs.
White House officials issued an internal memo that highlights how the largest investment in transportation, water systems and services in nearly a century would boost growth. The memo notes that the total package is four times the size of the infrastructure investment made a dozen years ago in response to the Great Recession and the biggest since Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s.
It also emphasises an analysis suggesting that 90 per cent of the jobs generated by the spending could go to workers without college degrees, a key shift as a majority of net job gains before the pandemic went to college graduates.
