If Congress doesn’t extend unemployment benefits in the next few weeks, millions of jobless Americans will find themselves without a vital safety net in 2012.
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The Keystone pipeline project is back in play as part of the payroll-tax cut debate, and Congressional Republicans say it would create jobs.
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Amid all the bitter wrangling between big business and the White House, there is one point of agreement: the need to rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges, and rails. The U.S. has fallen from eight to 16 on the World Economic Forum’s infrastructure rating; one bipartisan report cites a $200 billion annual shortfall just to maintain our current transportation network. But in these tight economic times, who’s going to pay? We took that question to Matt Rose, who heads BNSF, North America’s second-largest rail freight system, and is a member of President Obama’s jobs council.
