{"id":238055,"date":"2010-01-27T11:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:business.theatlantic.com,2010:\/\/3.34295"},"modified":"2010-01-27T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:40:19","slug":"obama-high-speed-rail-is-fast-track-to-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/238055","title":{"rendered":"Obama: High-Speed Rail is Fast Track to Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is expected to sell an $8 billion high-speed rail project today as a jobs creator that will also provide transportation between 13 major US corridors, including Orlando-Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>This is in keeping with the White House&#8217;s articulated jobs strategy. It&#8217;s not just about jobs now. It&#8217;s about jobs that last, and jobs that build something that lasts even longer.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/business.theatlantic.com\/2009\/12\/the_white_house_job_creation_strategy_aims_long.php\">Wall Street Journal op-ed <\/a>in<br \/>\nDecember, Christina Romer, chair of the president&#8217;s Council of Economic<br \/>\nAdvisers, rejected public works projects and explained that Obama<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t spend money on jobs for the sake of jobs. He wants to build<br \/>\nsomething. I expect this will be the theme of Obama&#8217;s job creation section of the State of the Union.<\/p>\n<p>Romer focused on tax credits for home retrofitting, which would boost<br \/>\ngreen tech jobs and construction, and infrastructure. Infrastructure<br \/>\nspending has a high multiplier effect, and as <a href=\"http:\/\/business.theatlantic.com\/2009\/12\/hey_obama_lets_build_a_bridge_to_more_jobs.php\">this<\/a><br \/>\nWSJ story indicates, there&#8217;s a lot of excess capacity with construction<br \/>\ncompanies afraid that their already running out of projects from the<br \/>\nfirst round of stimulus.<br \/><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:b736a102425cad74b5b095a4edf9f57f:oC86E3D8fRwV%2Fuhujy2hwI245bWzBZexNBb7xHkEO81eLgBfedPeh9aVeTdCYlXLN4sCHn8AYwPY'><img border='0' title='Email this Article' alt='Email this Article' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/emailthis.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:0abbb45e371d242294978660c7edbea8:o22f5jwu8cgL%2B4c57MGEYwYZxtDOD9MLDhJuPBi9g5B239ciFjsCgRFDaRnvTBpcw%2F3GiVrq6JBP'><img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/digg.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:016da5b11bad5eb5a10792a40cb01fbe:qsToMkqDIMewiEEBuTnjT%2FYQ0Kg58V5gYn%2Fr%2BIb3aTSARrYZmCclSr88hBfr3j2bHr8rWULF2VZv'><img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/reddit.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:3cc0029d01a45beb3d1f24ebf143d178:DM7dRrerHpCB1jTHV9C15PBARqj9weMa8o2RLe%2Bfydrrj7P%2FvOhVLAeyvWIUSUJcPUp%2FZasMD7WFbg%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Twitter' alt='Add to Twitter' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/twitter.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:acbfce161ddd497311b5837490a103eb:J9uBeg%2BFu%2FPAh9FWHpjcYqBlwNoeuLnNS41g0W3RX4fEIRDHhahK0iExOoY9J7cpOOl1%2Fx2Jz3mA'><img border='0' title='Add to del.icio.us' alt='Add to del.icio.us' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/delicious.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:5a39986f21f102e669e67b2e856f7c77:MsX2F3HkBIMQN8AtgSvf15uwxES0m%2BycSm28xjlFjZtXlv64riDkT%2Bb5IjI7wiQhae8fsq%2F1oQ1SDw%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to StumbleUpon' alt='Add to StumbleUpon' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/stumbleit.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:e51f7065ee5dfac51078773245e61c5b:DZNhM7McWW3nO6b7%2F%2B7Dh7FNkczcdfeKfWU8OsESh068BPdEpl8KztY2dRT1BKvDeKJm4Olg4un4Vw%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/facebook.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=5783437834b3ea762a7506114c2d88e9&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=5783437834b3ea762a7506114c2d88e9&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AtlanticBusinessChannel\/~4\/4mX6rpM2-Hw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is expected to sell an $8 billion high-speed rail project today as a jobs creator that will also provide transportation between 13 major US corridors, including Orlando-Tampa. This is in keeping with the White House&#8217;s articulated jobs strategy. It&#8217;s not just about jobs now. It&#8217;s about jobs that last, and jobs that build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}