Marc Joffe
Enacting legislation and realizing its purported benefits are two very different things: a lesson now being learned by supporters of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), known colloquially as the bipartisan infrastructure bill. The law, which dedicated $1.2 trillion to a variety of infrastructure initiatives, has yet to yield many of its expected deliverables.
Recent headlines have exposed two glaring implementation shortfalls. Although the IIJA included $42.5 billion for rural broadband...