Americans in rural America, big cities and the suburbs agree: it?s time to increase investment in U.S. infrastructure.
A new poll commissioned by Association of Equipment Manufacturers found widespread support for investing in infrastructure. AEM President Dennis Slater says urban-rural consensus is those investments would improve the U.S. economy, create jobs and improve Americans? quality of life.
?We put out a survey to the general public about what people thought about investments in infrastructure. What we found was across all parts of the country urban and rural, that there was a huge support for infrastructure investments,? Slater says.
Eighty-nine percent of Americans said investments in infrastructure would strengthen the U.S. economy, including eighty-six (86) percent of urban and eighty-nine (89) percent of rural Americans.
?I think the results confirm what we looked at last year. The results now are more specific in the fact that we wanted to look at different audiences. We split out the urban and rural audiences differently than we did before to get a better understanding.?
Respondents also say they expect that infrastructure investment would benefit manufacturing industries. Thirty percent say manufacturing would be a primary industry to benefit from infrastructure investments, along with other industries like construction and transportation.
