In an April 28 NIB Zoom Town Hall, infrastructure experts lay the framework for a new economic direction entitled “Made in the USA: The National Infrastructure Bank Will Fire Up American Manufacturing.” 

As the Covid-19 pandemic, the breakdown of the domestic supply chain, and the rapid rise of inflation have converged to create a “perfect storm” of economic dislocation, it has created a unique opportunity to reverse decades of neglect of critical infrastructure, by rebuilding manufacturing and the American workforce.

The time is now to implement the $5 Trillion National Infrastructure Bank which is exemplified in HR3339 in Congress. This legislation will compel a new resurgence of American industry to build the projects. Not only will the legislation mandate Buy America policies, but it will stimulate the creation of new industries to supply the materials for the projects. Made in America will be turned from a slogan into a reality.

Speakers included:

Alphecca Muttardy, Macroeconomist, former Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund, Fairfax, VA

Dr. Alexander Metcalf, Ph.D., President Transportation Economics and Management Company, an international expert in rail, ports, and supply chains, Frederick, MD

Senator William Tallman, Albuquerque, NM

Steve Ribuffo, Port Director, Port of Alaska in Anchorage, AMPE, Anchorage, AK

Steven Fenberg, Emmy award-winning author and producer of “Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism and the Common Good”; “Brother, can you Spare a Billion?”, Houston, TX

Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, Pennsylvania House, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Asm. Robert Karabinchak, Chairman, Special Committee on Infrastructure and Natural Resources, Middlesex, NJ

Julie Olsen, MBA, small business owner and Chair, Progressive Caucus, Alaska Democratic Party, Anchorage, AK

Moderator: Linda Tosti-Lane, Legislative Co-Chair, Washington State National Organization for Women, Brier, WA 

Click below to watch.