RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes, November 20, 2009, The Hill
With rising concern about the nation’s anemic job numbers, infrastructure has emerged as a centerpiece of a number of proposed “jobs bills.” In a Hill op-ed, Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes point out that infrastructure is not necessarily a cure-all and outline the federal leadership and strategies necessary for successful investment in the way we move goods, people and power. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, November 09, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC
Broadband and wireless technologies are key elements of our nation’s economic, social and civic development. With the Federal Communications Commission’s stated goals of bringing broadband access to all Americans, it is crucial to determine how to be innovative when investing in broadband infrastructure. On November 9, the Brookings Institution hosted a policy forum to examine this issue and to discuss ways to overcome barriers to developing this infrastructure. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Charles K. Ebinger and Lea T. Rosenbohm, October 27, 2009, The Brookings Institution
Charles Ebinger and Lea Rosenbohm say President Obama's decision to use $3.4 billion dollars of stimulus money to begin developing a smart grid is a welcome development. Ebinger and Rosenbohm look to how the smart grid will help benefit providers and consumers while noting additional steps that will be required moving forward. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC
On October 13, the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program hosted a panel discussion around how to best prepare and support metropolitan regions in the development of integrated blueprint plans for sustainable growth. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
9:00 AM to 12:20 PM
Washington, DC
On July 21, the Latin America Initiative at Brookings and the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) hosted a discussion of CAF’s recent report titled “Roads to the Future: Management of Infrastructure in Latin America.” Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lisa Wood and Roland Risser, April 30, 2009, The Brookings Institution
As utilities rely more and more on energy efficiency in their portfolios of energy resources, it is important to recognize that making energy efficiency (EE) a sustainable and scalable business requires a partnership among utilities, regulators, legislators, and customers. Lisa Wood and Roland Risser examine how efficiency programs can offset sitnificant growth in demand for electricity over the next 20 years. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro, Jennifer Bradley, Alan Berube, Robert Puentes, Sarah Rahman and Andrew Reamer, March 30, 2009, The Brookings Institution
America’s national economic crisis is also a metropolitan crisis, because metropolitan areas are the true engines of the national economy. So it matters intensely how well the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) empowers metropolitan leaders to boost prosperity. This paper finds that although ARRA is limited in its support for creative metropolitan-area implementation, it delivers critical investments in what matters to metros and holds out significant opportunity for metropolitan empowerment and problem-solving. Read More
BOOK
David de Ferranti, Anthony J. Ody and with Justin Jacinto and Graeme Ramshaw, March 01, 2009
This perceptive book emphasizes the need for an overall analytical framework that can be applied to different countries to help analyze the current situation, identify potential areas for improvement, and assess their relative feasibility and the steps needed to promote them. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert Puentes and Adie Tomer, February 26, 2009, The Brookings Institution
As the recent kerfuffle between Transportation Secretary LaHood and the White House spokesperson demonstrate, debate over transportation policy and funding is heating up fast. Robert Puentes and Adie Tomer suggest that, while that flap was about taxing miles traveled instead of, or in addition to, gasoline consumed, the comments provide a window into the long simmering quandary over how we move the nation. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz, February 22, 2009, National Governors Association Winter Meeting
After years of benign neglect, the nation’s crumbling infrastructure is getting its public hearing. Bruce Katz delivered a major speech during a special session of the National Governors Association Winter Meeting dedicated to infrastructure financing, accountability and sustainability. He urged the critical importance of policy reform in shifting the infrastructure conversation from one focused on spending, to one focused on investing. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro, Robert Puentes and Alan Berube, February 13, 2009, The Brookings Institution
A historic fiscal experiment in this country will evolve in the weeks, months and years ahead as a $790 billion stimulus package is spent to revive America’s economy. Metropolitan Policy Program experts suggest how this money might be strategically deployed to invigorate our nation’s metropolitan areas, the sources of national prosperity. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jason Bordoff, Lael Brainard, Carola McGiffert and Isaac Sorkin, February 12, 2009, The Brookings Institution
As U.S. policy-makers focus on how to strengthen the U.S. economy in the midst of the financial crisis, Brookings competitiveness experts stress the need for a longer-term view with policy priorities focused on how to rebuild American competitiveness through investments in people, infrastructure, ideas and green transformation. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Amy Liu, January 22, 2009, Kojo Nnamdi Show
Barack Obama has promised to make urban issues a central part of his presidential agenda. In this broadcast, Amy Liu talks to Kojo Nnamdi and others about strategies for reinvesting in our nation’s urban areas. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes, January 15, 2009, Great Falls Tribune
Bruce Katz and Rob Puentes argue that President-elect Obama must connect infrastructure spending to broad national goals such as creating new jobs, training a new work force and connecting people to work. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Clifford Winston, January 13, 2009, NewTalk
Clifford Winston join other experts in an important and timely discussion of something that will affect both the immediate economic progress of the U.S. and our economic viability for generations to come: infrastructure, on NewTalk moderated by Amy Resnick. Read More