Stimulus ripples outward, generates road construction support jobs

I've written more than once on these pages about the job-creation ripples the Obama Administration anticipates from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. With its decision to build an aggregate mining facility to produce road construction materials, Sloan Construction of Duncan, South Carolina, provides a perfect example of ARRA's stimulus effect.

As WSPA7 reports, Sloan expects to break ground on the $15 million plant this fall, with operation to begin by early next year. The Sloan expansion will provide 40 new jobs in Cherokee County, South Carolina, where the unemployment rate was 17.6% in June.

According to the Associated General Contractors of America:

"Certainly one of the reasons Sloan has decided to build the plant is because they see road paving as a steady source of income--thanks this year and next to the stimulus."

And it's not just the jobs Sloan's new plant will create; those new employees will have money in their pockets as well, and they will likely spend some of it in Cherokee County businesses.

When we suggested that ARRA money would create indirect jobs in transportation infrastructure, this is what we had in mind.

This is stimulus.

Comments

[Michael E. Bailey]

The ripple impact of the road construction projects across the country will generate as many and maybe more jobs as the road construction projects themselves and that is great news for hard hit state and local economies. It will also be a great investment in the transportation infrastructure that will last for many years to come. Best wishes, Michael E. Bailey.

[Storage Containers]

Thank you for your great article on this is very important subject.Very happy this is getting done. It's a humanitarian victory, of sorts.The ripple impact of the road construction projects across the country will generate as many and maybe more jobs as the road construction projects themselves and that is great news for hard hit state and local economies.

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[Boom Trucks]

As a construction worker i love the sound of this. But I also read on another blog that if you are white and male in a certain city in Oregon you need not apply for construction projects funded by this stimulus. What is a guy like me supposed to do?

[john lenti]

We've been wondering...

Is there any guidelines on how much road constrcution (lane closures) should occur in any one construction season? Or by proximity? While the job creation is great and the roads need work, we are concerned that not enough attention is spent on the disruption road work is having on our drive times and commutes.

We have learned that Europe is researching ways to increase the durabilty of the roads and lessining the impact of construction and repairs on traffic. What research are we Americans doing?

Thanks!
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