“The Senate on Wednesday voted 74 to 22 to pass a two-year, $109-billion transportation funding bill. Sen. Bernie Sanders said the badly-needed investment in roads and bridges also will create good-paying construction jobs. “It is estimated that this bill will save more than 1.8 million jobs nationwide in each of the next two years, and it will create a million new jobs through an expanded infrastructure-financing program.”
The expanded infrastructure-financing program should provide for broadened ownership by the workers of the companies who will receive the government contracts. As a nation, we need to begin associating ALL government contracts with the requirement for broadened ownership of productive capital. Otherwise, those who already own will continue to further concentrate future ownership and become enriched from taxpayer-supported contracts.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=8C23DEF8-D6A8-4F72-B81D-0B507824DB9C
