infrastructure spending
Building national systems
Infrastructure spending is government expenditure on large-scale public systems and facilities—roads, bridges, power grids, water treatment, transit networks, broadband.
The term appears constantly in political debate, where it functions as both concrete policy and ideological battleground: The bill includes $50 billion for infrastructure spending.
What counts as infrastructure expands and contracts depending on who's arguing—some limit it to physical structures, others include schools, hospitals, or childcare.
- tax revenueGovernment's collected funds
- roadsPaved paths for vehicles
- pothole repairFixing street surface cavities
- job creationEstablishing new work positions
- budget allocationPlanned distribution of funds
fiscal cliff · bridges · crumbling bridges · water supply systems · GDP growth · bonds · airports · railways · public transit systems · grants · loans · development aid · oversight committees · user fees · subsidies · shovel ready · capital projects · zoning laws
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
- UK Policytax policy, economic policy, education policy, health policy, housing policy
- economic stimulusstimulus, stimulus package, stimulus packages, fiscal stimulus, economic relief
- federal budgetfederal budget, appropriations, deficit, national budget, surplus
- Federal Spendingdefense budget, education funding, interest payments, veterans benefits, transportation
- government spendingfederal budget, expenditures, allocations, federal aid, state aid
infrastructure spendingbusiness investment
Money committed to enterprise
venture capital · shareholder returns · consumer spending · commercial development · dividend payments
infrastructure spendingdisinvestment
Withdrawing capital from assets
defunding · deferred maintenance · fiscal austerity · spending cuts · budget cuts
infrastructure spendingoperating expenses
Routine business costs
infrastructure, spending, infrastructural, spends, spender, spenders, structure, structural, structurally