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| October 13, 2021 | New Jersey Transit Approves $1.56b Bridge Contract | It's been called “the most critical infrastructure project in the United States." The New Jersey Board of Directors approved the contract with board chair Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti saying ...Read more |
| October 6, 2021 | “Biden Didn’t Keep His Word”: New Border Wall Construction Underway | As we reported in January, Joe Biden repeatedly promised that construction of a border w ...Read more |
| September 23, 2021 | Infrastructure Investments Will Boost GDP and Employment Across Sectors | While the bill has passed the Senate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to bring the bill to the floor for a vote on Monday. The study showing the economic boons the bill would bring was ...Read more |
| September 14, 2021 | Small Businesses Struggle as SBA Celebrates Them With Celebs | “The American entrepreneurial spirit is a defining quality of our Nation which time and again has lifted us to new heights and carried us through our greatest challenges,” President Joe Biden r ...Read more |
| September 2, 2021 | What’s the point of Amtrak? | The $1 trillion infrastructure bill, if made into law as in its current form, will give $66 billion in new funding for Amtrak, which has a wish list of more than 50 new routes it wants to construct ...Read more |
| August 26, 2021 | EPA Creates Diversity Task Force, Will Spend More With DBEs | Earlier this month, an internal EPA email was obtained by E&E news. In it, Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe told employees of the agency that a “diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (D ...Read more |
| August 23, 2021 | Massachusetts Wind Farm’s Union Priority at Odds With Workforce Diversity | On May 11, the Biden Administration’s Secretary of Interior, Deb Haaland, and the Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, announced the approval of the construction of the Vineyard Wind project. Th ...Read more |
| August 17, 2021 | SBA is Working With Congress to Codify Biden’s Raised DBE Goals | In an exclusive interview with Federa ...Read more |
| August 16, 2021 | US Blew $30b on Afghanistan Construction Programs | Here at Contractor News, we like to talk a lot about what we call the three C’s: contracting, construction, and corruption. Though we typically cover domestic issues, Afghanistan is a story that ...Read more |
| August 11, 2021 | OMB Report IDs Major Faults in Equity in Federal Programs | OMB, under the leadership of Acting Director Shalanda Young, consulted with a number of US and international experts of matters of equity including assessment and improvement, data science and “o ...Read more |