Joseph Kane

Electricity tower

Four steps to undo the harms of legacy infrastructure in the COVID-19 recovery

Shalini Vajjhala and Joseph W. Kane

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Water infrastructure worker

Prioritize people, not projects: Addressing the harms of legacy infrastructure in the COVID-19 recovery

Joseph W. Kane and Shalini Vajjhala

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Congress illustration

An infrastructure stimulus plan for the COVID-19 recession

Adie Tomer, Joseph W. Kane, and Lara Fishbane

July 29, 2020

Cars go through the flood caused by heavy rains on Biscayne Boulevard in Aventura on May 24, 2020, in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. (Photo by David Santiago/Miami Herald/TNS/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Boosting local climate resilience and economic opportunity in the COVID-19 era

Monday, July 20, 2020

April 25, 2020, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Kitchen staffs preparing meals for frontline workers at Pagu in Cambridge. Pagu is one of the first restaurant partners of Off Their Plate (OTP). OTP is a brainchild of Natalie Guo, Harvard Medical student, providing relief for two hard hit industries, Health care and restaurant industries. OTP, working with World Central Kitchen has expanded in 9 cities, working with more than 50 restaurants and 110 health care facilities across the nation and fundraised 3 million dollars since March. The organization pays restaurant $10 a meal to produce for frontline workers. The National Restaurant Association estimates that 3 million industry employees have already lost their jobs, and restaurants across USA will take a $225 billion sales hit through May . No Use China. No Use Taiwan. No Use Korea. No Use Japan.

To protect frontline workers during and after COVID-19, we must define who they are

Adie Tomer and Joseph W. Kane

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

A worker moves part of a delivery of 64 hospital beds from Hillrom to The Mount Sinai Hospital during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

How to protect essential workers during COVID-19

Adie Tomer and Joseph W. Kane

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Delta Airlines planes and a British Airways plane (2nd L) are pictured at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, on the day Delta CEO Ed Bastian told employees he was cutting 40% of capacity in the coming months, the largest in the airline's history, in addition to pursuing aid, in SeaTac, Washington, U.S. March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Redmond

We should bail out airlines during the coronavirus pandemic—but on taxpayers’ terms

Adie Tomer and Joseph W. Kane

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Amtrak track workers work inside the tunnel at New York's Penn Station, the nation's busiest train hub, which will be closing tracks for repairs causing massive disruptions to commuters in New York City, U.S. July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1500696CA0

To fix our infrastructure, Washington needs to start from scratch

Adie Tomer, Joseph W. Kane, and Lara Fishbane

December 4, 2019

Infrastructure maintenance

Shifting into an era of repair: US infrastructure spending trends

Joseph W. Kane and Adie Tomer

Friday, May 10, 2019

Solar panels

Advancing inclusion through clean energy jobs

Mark Muro, Adie Tomer, Ranjitha Shivaram, and Joseph W. Kane

April 18, 2019