The Road to Recovery Runs Through the DOT

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While most jittery unemployment-stat watchers have been focused on a jobs-creation bill snaking its way through Congress, the Department of Transportation recently and somewhat quietly injected $1.5 billion into the economy in the form of funding for road, rail and other infrastructure work. The project has been dubbed the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER, plan. (And if ever there was a name that could use some positive PR, that's it.) TIGER should have a...