Infrastructure: Why You Should Care - a podcast by Stranger Times Studios

This is a great one! We promise!
It's funny how people always love to look at the trees and flowers from the ground up. Don't they look good? What about the long roots under the soil? Can't they be beautiful too? Just because you can't see them, that does not mean they aren't there."A tree with strong roots laughs at storms."In life, we always love to admire someone else's success, the fruit, if you will. But we never spend the time looking at the foundations, and the hard work that is going on underneath. The roots that are underground.
This is an episode where Los and Bertram take a strong look at the growing infrastructure problem in the United States of America, as well as the comparison worldwide. They discuss President Biden's infrastructure plan.
Resources from this episode:https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/08/13/important-issues-in-the-2020-election/ (Important Issues in the 2020 Election | Pew Research Center)
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/wedge_issue (Wedge Issue definition | Oxford)https://www.pewresearch.org/2006/07/26/wedge-issues-on-the-ballot/ (Wedge Issues on the ballot | Pew Research Center)
https://www.theatlantic.com/membership/archive/2017/12/the-irresistible-effectiveness-of-wedge-politics/547946/ (The Irresistible Effectiveness of Wedge Politics - The Atlantic)https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/infrastructure.asp (Infrastructure definition | Investopedia)
https://marketbusinessnews.com/financial-glossary/infrastructure-definition-means/ (Infrastructure definition | Market Business News)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhlIcLK7j5E (Crumbling Bridges: US Infrastructure 10 Years After Minneapolis - YouTube | Retro Report)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixL3mDejAYU (Why U.S. Roads and Highways Are So Bad - YouTube | CNBC)Required Reading this week: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/ (America's Infrastructure Report Card 2021 | GPA: C- )
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0215_infrastructure-ranking-by-country-world-economic-forum (US Ranks 13th in Infrastructure Quality | Peter G. Peterson Foundation)https://www.enotrans.org/article/70-year-trend-federal-infrastructure-spending/ (70 Year Trend in Federal Infrastructure Spending - The Eno Center for Transportation)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-america-invested-infrastructure-these-beautiful-landmarks-were-result-180953570/ (When America Invested in Infrastructure, These Beautiful Landmarks Were the Result | Smithsonian Magazine)https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Federal_Highway_Act.htm (U.S. Senate: Congress Approves the Federal-Aid Highway Act)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xd9cxRtt_k&t=19s (Interstate Highway Act of 1956 - YouTube | The Daily Dose)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-F4oF13LXk&t=30s (Priorities for US Infrastructure - YouTube | The B1M)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan/ (FACT SHEET: The American Jobs Plan | The White House)https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/business/economy/biden-infrastructure-plan.html (Biden Details $2 Trillion Plan to Rebuild Infrastructure and Reshape the Economy | New York Times)
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/2021/04/01/2-trillion-infrastructure-bill-charts-detail-bidens-plan/4820227001/ (Infrastructure Plan: 4 Charts Show Where the Money Will Go | USA Today)https://www.investopedia.com/comparing-the-economic-plans-of-trump-and-biden-4843240#infrastructure (Comparing the economic plans of Trump and Biden - Infrastructure | Investopedia)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264753/ranking-of-countries-according-to-the-general-quality-of-infrastructure/ (Quality of infrastructure: Countries with best infrastructure 2019 | Statista)https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/04/02/john-boehner-book-memoir-excerpt-478506 (Panic Rooms, Birth Certificates and the Birth of GOP Paranoia - POLITICO)...

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