Our infrastructure sucks. Some studies have shown we waste $195 billion a year because of this. As I've said before, fixing our infrastructure would be a worthwhile project to reduce unemployment. Even though there will be a time lag in many cases, there are some projects that are ready to go today.
Donna Cooper thinks we should begin with bridges. The Federal Highway Administration has flagged 150,000 of them as being deficient. Bridges contribute $8 billion of the wasted $195 billion and they are in every state. Here's a list of the states which have the most deficient bridges. Cooper has listed the number of unemployed in each state and a simplistic ratio of unemployed worker per bridge in need of repair.
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