Issues & Policy / Economics

Grab hold of the levers

A new president can harness the power of the nation’s economy

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Dallas, Texas, highways

Infrastructure

Century of cities

The 21st century will be a century of cities. Long the engines of American innovation, cities are supplying fresh ideas and vital economic growth, and in an interconnected world, they are working collaboratively across national boundaries to deal with big issues.
Mason B. Williams
Albright College
Eisenhower

Infrastructure

Be like Ike

Nineteen months into his first term, President Dwight Eisenhower, quoting an unnamed “former college president,” advised a public audience: “I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.”
Peter Norton
University of Virginia
U.S. highway map

Infrastructure

The long road

The next president should build upon existing infrastructure projects such as the interstate highway system
Francesca Russello Ammon
University of Pennsylvania
Flint Water Plant

Infrastructure

The environment of opportunity

The next president should attack child lead poisoning by creating institutions that will keep the problem visible and by finding funding sources that are adequate to the large task of massively reducing lead hazards.
Leif Fredrickson
University of Virginia
Baltimore inner harbor

Infrastructure

Reasserting the importance of cities

The Port Covington story underscores two of the central weaknesses of American urban-development strategy.
David Dagan
Johns Hopkins University