{"id":561,"date":"2009-06-05T17:45:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T21:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/?p=561"},"modified":"2009-12-02T13:40:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T18:40:47","slug":"building-the-national-infrastructure-bank-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/featured\/building-the-national-infrastructure-bank-overview\/561\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama has called for the creation of a National Infrastructure Bank. The intention: To create a structure so public works projects could be, according to the President while campaigning last year, \u201cdetermined not by politics, but by what will maximize our safety and homeland security; what will keep our environment clean and our economy strong.\u201d Still, it is unclear how a National Infrastructure Bank would function &#8212; or even be established.<\/p>\n<p><em>Blueprint America<\/em> looks at the possibility of the Bank &#8212; both the design and implementation of &#8212;  in interviews with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/reports\/building-the-national-infrastructure-bank\/video-felix-rohatyn\/559\/\">Felix Rohatyn<\/a>, author of <em>Bold Endeavors: How our government built America, and why it must rebuild now<\/em>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/reports\/building-the-national-infrastructure-bank\/interview-the-california-i-bank-example\/554\/\">Stan Hazelroth<\/a>, Executive Director of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank. 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