Water officials in Pittsburgh are considering raising rates more than 13% for infrastructure improvements.
There would be about 150 infrastructure improvements to enhance transportation, energy, water, and telecom networks.
The association estimates 1.8 million new jobs could be created if the infrastructure improvements are funded by Congress.
The money also has been used on beautification projects, multiple billboards that herald the special celebration and infrastructure improvements.
Infrastructure improvements will be useful, but the best investment will probably be to help the developing world get wealthier.
Since many of the events took place on Whistler's slopes, Olympic infrastructure improvements also made quick day-trips to Whistler feasible.
Infrastructure improvements have decreased the price of broadband in many countries, but internet access is pricey for most of the world.
Clearly, General Electric sees more money in powering the demand for infrastructure improvements around the world than it does in consumer spending.
The transformation will involve core business processes not just IT infrastructure improvements.
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He said that some infrastructure improvements had been funded by the council of the Isles of Scilly in conjunction with Penzance town council.
For the forthcoming initiative, the Chamber hopes to expand membership in ATM and release a study quantifying the economic benefits of infrastructure improvements.
Also, the city now has a bond rating that is investment-grade, which should free up access to tens of millions of dollars for infrastructure improvements.
Nowhere near that amount is currently earmarked for infrastructure improvements.
Those local governments in turn used the loans to provide economic stimulus through highway construction and other infrastructure improvements, as well as an overbuilding of homes and office buildings.
"Governments need to take steps to bring forward and approve a programme of capital infrastructure improvements that will bring long-term benefits to the Scottish and UK economies, " he added.
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Friday's statement could also be reassuring to global businesses who have helped turn Chongqing into a manufacturing hub in recent years and have been relying on the city's massive infrastructure improvements.
The railroad has instituted a number of business reforms over the years, some of them under pressure from Congress, lowered debt, and has been able to make infrastructure improvements to boost operating efficiency.
The struggling economies spending billions in infrastructure improvements or attempting to prop up old industries as a way of increasing employment, could spend a fraction of that amount to seed mobile internet start-ups.
She also said the government was looking at reforms to the planning system to make it easier for new homes to be built, but said this had to be part of wider infrastructure improvements.
The Economic Policy Institute wants job-generating infrastructure improvements.
Potential benefits of having a nuclear facility included the creation of about 555 jobs, road and rail infrastructure improvements, a boost to the economy from spending on construction, a community benefits package from the government, the report said.
If climate change continues unabated, the resulting sea level rises will force cities and states all along the coasts to divert parts of their already strained budgets into billions of dollars worth of infrastructure improvements to prevent flooding.
The rebuilding effort also represented a chance to create infrastructure improvements that would have helped the economy directly, such as investments in transportation, water and power systems, according to Arthur Levner-Lam, director of the hazard center at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
It does not make sense economically as ANY alcohol fuel cost more to produce and supply than the gasoline it is replacing especially if you consider the infrastructure improvements necessary to transport and contain the material and the engineering required to design an engine that can run on it.
"Substantial improvements in the infrastructure of planning and policy, leadership and advocacy, workforce training and surveillance must be realized, " he said.
Except for some GDP generating projects consistent with our needs, like improvements to our infrastructure, most of this revenue should be used to reduce our annual deficit.
Despite recent improvements, education and infrastructure still lag behind China's or South Korea's (as a big power cut this week reminded Brazilians).
And that's why we helped with infrastructure and roads, to bring improvements, to bring back Main Street, to bring it back to life.
Boston's compact and relatively flat geography is ideal for cycling, and in the last five years the city has implemented a cutting-edge bike share program, the Hubway, and made major improvements to its cycling infrastructure.
This shift to smaller-scaled cities, as Michigan State's Zachary Neal points out, has been conditioned by massive improvements in telecommunications and transportation infrastructure throughout the urban world.
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