American High Speed Rail: Transportation and Jobs
<em>The Infrastructurist</em>'s Melissa Lafsky is on <em>Fox Business</em> to discuss the prospect of high speed rail in America -- both in terms of transportation and jobs.
Though none of the main high speed rail manufacturers are American companies, Lafsky notes that American jobs will be created. Two of the main manufacturers have factories in the United States and would likely use American materials to build these trains.
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