Stories tagged: "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act"
Kilah Engelke, a Milwaukee mom and cement mason, highlights the jobs being created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the rest of President Biden’s legislative agenda.
Madison resident Lisa Goodman says that working as an electrician is the “best thing that ever happened” to her. She was able to pay off her graduate school debt, bought a home on a single income, and has been mostly debt free for the past 14 years.
The Biden administration is investing $1 billion to expand high-speed service in Wisconsin. The work could be getting done faster, but Republicans dropped the state’s funding commitment to $0.
As federal investments pour into the construction sector, Kilah Engelke is working to recruit more women into the industry. “We have the best health care available and a pension that will last my entire lifetime and allow me to retire with dignity at an early age,” she said. “The wages are great too.”
Senator Baldwin and Congressman Pocan helped push the FCC to update its coverage map so that Wisconsin gets what’s needed to bring affordable high-speed service to all.
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We elect leaders who will spend our tax dollars wisely. Throwing billions toward tax cuts for the super-rich does nothing to keep roads and bridges from crumbling and tumbling.
In Wisconsin, 170 infrastructure projects have been announced so far, and more are in the works. Here’s a look at the work that’s being done in the Badger State, and how it helps Wisconsinites.