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February 17, 2012

How to Define a "Shovel Ready Project"

Tina Casey, Triple Pundit


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In a recent Sunday talk show, House Speaker John Boehner described the Keystone XL oil pipeline as “the epitome of a shovel ready job project.” Though it’s tempting to dismiss that characterization out of hand in light of a Cornell University study demonstrating that the pipeline could eliminate more jobs than...

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TAGGED: Keystone XL pipeline, shovel ready, government subsidies, Obama administration, stimulus

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