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...those students is Scott Harlin, 40, whose job as a drug- and alcohol-rehabilitation counselor was wiped out by state budget cuts two years ago. He's now studying at Columbus Technical College, in Columbus, Ga., to become a Cisco certified network engineer. Says Harlin (whose grade point average thus far is 4.0): "Jobs are so hard to come by right now. Why not study and get qualified to do something that will be marketable later?" He adds, "I've always thought about going back to school, but I probably wouldn't have done it if I hadn't gotten...
...change may soon be coming to America. On Thursday, President Obama outlined a proposal that would revitalize the passenger rail network of the United States by providing $8 billion in funding from the recently passed $787 billion stimulus package for high-speed rail networks, especially along the Northeast Corridor. We applaud the president’s bold maneuver and hope to see him follow through on his lofty rhetoric with real change in the way that the federal government treats the entire issue of high-speed rail travel...
...Compared to the interstate highway system and the massive network of domestic airlines, high-speed rail is more energy-efficient and less costly per mile and provides an easy, efficient, and safe method of transportation. As such, we believe that a new national program of high-speed rail construction will be a worthwhile investment in infrastructure and job creation in the midst of the worst recession in more than two decades. In addition to the immediate benefits of job creation in the construction industry, the expansion of passenger rail travel will also provide jobs far into the future across...
...done. Critics of Amtrak, the government-owned corporation that currently administers America’s aging and inefficient passenger rail system, have correctly pointed out that the current system is not only unprofitable, but also horrendously mismanaged. Moreover, ticket prices remain prohibitively expensive on the only real high-speed network in the country, the Acela Express that runs between Washington and Boston...
...challenging task, encouraging trends have emerged in recent years. Just one day after Obama’s speech, the governors of eight Midwestern states sent the president a letter urging him to support a new proposed plan that would connect Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, and Madison, Wisconsin with a network of fast passenger trains. And, while, Amtrak’s trans-continental lines may be the object of ridicule, ridership on the Acela line has grown rapidly as fuel prices have made air and car travel less attractive to business commuters. We hope that new plans for high-speed rail...