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U.S. infrastructure gets another near-failing grade

By Curtis Stone (People's Daily Online)    15:17, March 10, 2017
U.S. infrastructure gets another near-failing grade
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The American Society of Civil Engineers on Thursday assigned a grade of D+ to American infrastructure, the same overall grade it received four years ago. “As in 2013, America’s cumulative GPA is once again a D+,” the report said.

The report card is issued every four years, and is closely followed. It depicts the condition and performance of American infrastructure in the familiar form of a school report card. Any grade within the poor range indicates that the infrastructure is in poor to fair condition and mostly below standard. Since the group’s first report card in 1998, American infrastructure has received a nearly failing GPA.

U.S. President Trump is seeking $1 trillion in public and private funds to invest in America’s “crumbling infrastructure.” According to a report by Bloomberg, Trump met with private-sector leaders on Wednesday to discuss his plan.

The group behind the report card says an additional $2 trillion in funding is needed. “Even though the U.S. Congress and some states have recently made efforts to invest more in infrastructure, these efforts do not come close to the $2.0 trillion in needs,” the report said. The group estimates $4.59 trillion is needed to improve the nation’s nearly failing infrastructure by 2025.

In his book Great Again, Trump praised China for its modern infrastructure, saying it is so much better. “We’re like a third-world country,” he wrote. Infrastructure investment has played a key role in China’s growth and the country leads the world in infrastructure investment.

Trump’s ambitious plan to rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure is off to a slow start and he has yet to provide details for his plan. How to pay for everything is the biggest question hanging over his plan.

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