Obama's National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank

From The Page - by Mark Halperin , Senator Obama is proposing a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank today:

"For our economy, our safety, and our workers, we have to rebuild America. I’m proposing a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank that will invest $60 billion over ten years. This investment will multiply into almost half a trillion dollars of additional infrastructure spending and generate nearly two million new jobs – many of them in the construction industry that’s been hard hit by this housing crisis. The repairs will be determined not by politics, but by what will maximize our safety and homeland security; what will keep our environment clean and our economy strong. And we’ll fund this bank by ending this war in Iraq. It’s time to stop spending billions of dollars a week trying to put Iraq back together and start spending the money on putting America back together instead.”

-Barack Obama

Group Blog Assignment

Each student assistant within Founders Reference Department will participate in a group blog covering pertinent issues surrounding the 2008 Presidential Elections.

You are to choose a topic/issue from the list herein and post, once a week, how that topic is addressed, discussed, debated by the current six presidential candidates via newspapers, campaign and general media websites.

As of today, the current candidates are: Clinton (D), Huckabee (R), McCain(R), McKinney(GP), Nader(I), Obama(D)

Pick an topic/issue:

1 Immigration -- Richardson / Ukaoma
2 Health Care -- Jackson
3 Economy -- Gamble
4 Education K-12 -- Golden
5 Education Higher Education -- Nelson
6 Environment -- Ajala
7 Technology --
8 Domestic Issues (Infrastucture, Employment) -- Young
9 International Issues (National Security) -- Newsome
10 Housing --

Assignment Guidelines
1. Use RSS to track online resources.

2. Posts should be, at minimum 2-4 sentences. Must have embedded links to cited resources.

3. Each post should have labels with (1) your initials, (2) the issue you are covering and (3) the last name of the presidential candidate discussed in the post.