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BRUCE KATZ: I’m reminded what Margaret Thatcher once said to an audience like this. You and I come by road or rails, it’s the economists that travel on infrastructure. Infrastructure, our ports, our airports, our bridges, our roads, our rail and transit systems, our water and sewer, our web of telecommunications, energy grids. That’s the connective tissue of this country.

And in our view smart policies and investments in infrastructure can foster productive growth in our economy, sustainable growth that furthers energy independence and real solutions to climate change, and inclusive growth. So that low- and moderate-income families have access to good schools and quality jobs and can share in a broader prosperity.

The infrastructure challenges that face this country compel us to think out of the box and outside the nation for systemic structural solutions.

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