“A National Infrastructure Bank” –
Andy Winnick
There is currently a critical need to repair and expand the public infrastructure of the U.S. Our existing system of bridges, the entire rail system, the electric grid, dams and the water distribution system and low cost housing have all continued to deteriorate because of a lack of available money due to massive federal debt and budget deficits, as well as political gridlock. There is an answer, and ironically, the solution is used successfully around the world, building on a model developed in the U.S., but abandoned in recent years — A National Infrastructure Bank. Andy will talk about the current effort to pass a bill now pending in Congress to authorize the chartering of a new National Infrastructure Bank, using a model first developed by Alexander Hamilton and very successfully repeated three more times in past years in the U.S. You are invited to come and see how this can (and should) be done.
Andy earned a BA from UC-Berkeley and an MA and PhD from U of Wisconsin, Madison in Econ, with a focus in Marco Econ, Money and Banking, and Stats. He is a Professor Emeritus of Economics and Statistics at Cal State LA. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank, and in that role is regularly involved in lobbying Congress members and their staffs, as well key state and local officials around the country.
This meeting with speaker Andy Winnick was a presentation at DoubleTree in Claremont.