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The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) issues a report every four years called "The Report Card on America’s Infrastructure." The latest report published in March 2013 gave an improved score for the country as a whole for the first time in the 15 years: an improvement from a D to a D+. [3] Presently, the federal government funds 25% ...
President Biden signed the US Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) into law in November 2021.. Since then, the bipartisan legislation has provided state and federal agencies with up to $1 ...
America has an infrastructure problem. Nearly half of U.S. public roads are in poor or mediocre condition. Almost 250,000 bridges across the country will need to be replaced in the next two decades.
The publicly available National Infrastructure Protection Plan is dated 2013, and the sector-specific plans for each of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors are all eight or more years out of date.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act requires the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to develop a safety mechanism to prevent drunk driving, which causes about 10,000 deaths each year in the United States as of 2021, which will be rolled out in phases for retroactive fitting, [126] [127] and will become mandatory for ...
According to a joint report from The Alliance for the Public Technology and the Communications Workers of America released in July 2008, states developed initiatives before there had been any national-wide action aimed to actively develop an information infrastructure and start to catch up to other countries in respect to the number of ...
But part of the problem is that the U.S. has also shot itself in the foot when it comes to completing these infrastructure projects. We have systematically weakened government by having too few ...
The Build Back Better Act was a bill introduced in the 117th Congress to fulfill aspects of President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Plan.It was spun off from the American Jobs Plan, alongside the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as a $3.5 trillion Democratic reconciliation package that included provisions related to climate change and social policy.