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President Joe Biden unveiled a $2 trillion infrastructure plan today -- will it be the most sweeping since the 1960s space program.

Dane Carlson
Dane Carlson
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Assorted Links Wednesday

President Joe Biden unveiled a $2 trillion infrastructure plan today -- paid for by tax hikes on businesses -- that his administration said will prove to be the most sweeping since investments in the 1960s space program.  Will it?


For the first time since March 2020, all 50 states and DC have unemployment rates below 10%!


In conversation: Jay Garner of the Site Selectors Guild.


Can small places compete?


Plugged Suez Canal = higher gas prices for Californians (and not the other 49)


You're not good enough not to practice.


Some good, some bad: How will shopping malls fare in 2021?

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