Job Creation
Infrastructure spending creates more jobs than other types of spending – each $1billion of HSIPR construction funding supports 24,000 jobs. HSIPR creates short-term jobs in construction, long-term jobs in ongoing maintenance and operation, and indirect jobs by providing regions with access to a larger labor pool and driving economic development. For example, 600,000 full-time construction jobs will be created by building the California High-Speed Rail system and 450,000 permanent new jobs will result from high-speed rail related economic growth over the next 25 years. A national HSIPR network will also create thousands of jobs building the next generation of train equipment in the United States.