State Surpluses a Boon for Infrastructure Spending

Lengthy Economic Expansion Translates Into Growing Fiscal Health 
For decades, it was conventional wisdom that the nation’s infrastructure problems had to be solved at the federal level. Before his election, Donald Trump indicated that one of his first acts as president would be to implement a $1 trillion infrastructure stimulus plan that would help revitalize the nation’s crumbling roads and highways. 

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Anirban Basu

Anirban Basu is Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm in Baltimore, MD. He is one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most recognizable economists in part because of his consulting work on behalf of such clients as prominent developers, bankers, brokerage houses, energy suppliers, and law firms.

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