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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by CapitalistCartr on Monday May 22, 2017 @11:03PM (#14398511)
During the Great Depression we had the CCC. They did a lot of good work that still benefits us today, building overpasses, flood control, trails and erosion protection in parks, fire lookout towers, roads, planted forests, and a ton of other useful stuff. Most of it wouldn't have gotten done otherwise, but we're better off for having it done.

Having said that, I'd start by simply funding as many small, <18 month road projects as I could. That'd suck up a lot of labor, tighten the labor market quickly and easily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by muninn_ on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:42AM (#14400412)
I personally would prefer that they spent time building housing, or parks instead of helping continue to subsidize car traffic.
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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by Eridrus on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @09:13AM (#14400850)
That's great and all, but that seems like a temporary solution that works because we've underinvested in infrastructure, not something that can absorb large numbers of people indefinitely.
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