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January 7th, 2011

Profiles from the Recession: [VIDEO] Fixing America with High-speed rail
Last month, Blueprint America's colleagues at Need to Know debuted a new segment on the program: Fixing America. This week, their big thinkers take on infrastructure and the economy -- can High-speed rail get America back on the right track? Guests include Petra Todorovich, director the America 2050; Felix Salmon, a financial blogger for Reuters; and Patricia DeGennaro, a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute.

October 22nd, 2010

Profiles from the Recession: [VIDEO] Stretched To The Limits: Still driving to qualify after the housing crisis
As they post-mortem the housing crisis, policy makers are increasingly putting transportation costs under the microscope. Blueprint America visits the car -dependent suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, to learn about how transportation costs are making it harder for families to hold on to the American Dream.

October 1st, 2010

Profiles from the Recession: [VIDEO] Riding The Bus In Natchez, Miss.
A new and improved public transit system --funded with stimulus dollars -- helps the poor get to work in rural Mississippi.

September 28th, 2010

Reshaping Suburbia: The fight against childhood obesity
Seventeen percent of American kids are obese. Not a little chubby, but actually obese. Many American cities are also unhealthy by design: The infrastructure we've built keeps us in our cars longer and discourages us from walking or biking. A report from Somerville, MA, on the reshaping of suburbia.

September 17th, 2010

Profiles from the Recession: [VIDEO] High Times: In downturn, building parks for economic stability
A new report has found that, in spite of the recession, cities are investing in urban parks. A tour of one such park -- an old elevated rail line in New York City.

July 16th, 2010

Profiles from the Recession: [VIDEO] Elizabeth Warren: The next real estate crisis
Alison Stewart sits down with Elizabeth Warren, attorney, Harvard Law professor and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, in a Blueprint America special report about the potential of a national commercial real estate foreclosure crisis.

March 19th, 2010

Public Works: Video: Blueprint California
KCET public television in Southern California -- as a part of Blueprint America -- in a two part report following the one-year mark of President Obama's stimulus plan on the question of high-speed rail and the potential of green jobs as the California state budget verges on bankruptcy.

November 6th, 2009

Video: City Creek Center
Blueprint America -- with Religion & Ethics Newsweekly on PBS -- in a report on the rebuilding of Salt Lake City -- a private project changing the public landscape.

October 29th, 2009

Public Works: Video: Blueprint North Carolina
North Carolina is among the fastest growing states in America. UNC-TV -- as a part of Blueprint America -- looks at North Carolina's most pressing concerns around transportation infrastructure and creative solutions for the future.

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