Recent infrastructure bills passed by Congress will channel hundreds of billions of dollars across the country—the largest transfer of federal funds to state and local governments in generations and the most significant impact on the spatial design of urban and rural regions since the interstate highway era of the 1950s. Michael A. Pagano and Adie Tomer explain what capital budgets are and why they matter for America’s infrastructure investments.
Malicious actors using emerging technologies like artificial intelligence pose a growing threat to the United States. On a new episode of the TechTank Podcast, Cherilyn Pascoe—Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at the National Institute of Standards and Technology—joins Nicol Turner Lee to share what the agency is doing to enhance America’s cybersecurity.
Gross domestic product (GDP) is widely used to classify a country’s economic standing and plays a key role in access to international finance resources. However, it’s important to consider more than just income in these classifications, argue Wolfgang Fengler, Indermit Gill, and Homi Kharas. They present a new framework to incorporate emissions and make the case for emissions reduction to be a policy target alongside GDP growth.
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