Is US infrastructure spending on the upswing?

Australia, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom have also developed national infrastructure frameworks that allow the central government to direct and prioritize projects in a way that the United States’ more decentralized system has struggled to do. But U.S. infrastructure spending could be on the upswing.

Is there a downward trend in infrastructure investment before the Bil?

The multi-decade downward trend in U.S. infrastructure investment before the BIL is well documented. 2 Since most federal infrastructure funding flows through state and local governments, one way to gauge the overall trend is to consider state and local gross investment in equipment and structures (“capital investment” hereafter).

Is state and local capital investment a major component of infrastructure spending?

We offer three key conclusions: State and local capital investment—a major component of U.S. infrastructure spending—has grown as a share of state and local spending over the past two years by the largest amount since 1979.

Why does the United States invest less in transportation infrastructure than other countries?

Much of the discrepancy in infrastructure quality between the United States and its peers can be traced to different funding levels. According to the OECD, the United States invests less in transportation infrastructure as a percentage of GDP than many other wealthy countries, including France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.