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I am all for this. Our country is crumbling in more ways than one. You are truck drivers. You must all see just how horrific our roads are now.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article...-million-jobs/
Pending legislation to establish a $4 trillion National Infrastructure Bank would rebuild the nation’s rusting bridges, roads, and power grid and create 25 million union jobs desperately needed as the nation sinks into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. That was the message from building trades union leaders, economists, and community activists, speaking at a Zoom webinar during the virtual Democratic National Convention (DNC), Wednesday.
Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., author of H.R. 6422, the National Infrastructure Bank Act, greeted the crowd that signed on to the webinar.
The online meeting was hosted by Jack Hanna, a DNC delegate and former chair of the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania. Hanna is also chair of the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank based in Leesburg, Va. He hailed the racial diversity and the wide geographical reach of the participants—African American, Latino, and white, young and retired, from New York to California, Washington state to Virginia.
Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., author of H.R. 6422, the National Infrastructure Bank Act, greeted the crowd that signed on to the webinar.
The online meeting was hosted by Jack Hanna, a DNC delegate and former chair of the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania. Hanna is also chair of the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank based in Leesburg, Va. He hailed the racial diversity and the wide geographical reach of the participants—African American, Latino, and white, young and retired, from New York to California, Washington state to Virginia.
H.R. 6422, he added, “is the biggest job creator we have seen in a long, long time. It is especially important with COVID-19. We need these jobs.” Erika White, a young African-American community organizer from Toledo, Ohio, said, “The Midwest has been hit hard. Our jobs went overseas. In places like Toledo, the rustbelt, this bill will make all the difference, not only the direct jobs it creates” but indirect jobs as well.