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Citigroup recently announced it was creating something called Zoom-Free Fridays to give workers a break on video meetings that have become so dominant over the last year.
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President Joe Biden unveiled a $2 trillion infrastructure plan recently that would aim to fix roads and bridges, update railways, invest in electric vehicles and set aside money for subsidized housing.
It will also do a lot more: Allocating money for home-based care, school construction and expanding high-speed broadband.
Some members of Congress have already criticized it for including too much that might not be considered part of infrastructure. But the president has framed the plan as a “once-in-a-generation investment.”
Q: Is President Biden on the right track with his infrastructure plan?
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Bob Rauch, R.A. Rauch & Associates
NO: I am all in for infrastructure but am opposed to adding in free community college, universal pre-K, national paid leave, health insurance subsidies, and anti-growth green and labor union regulations, all under the guise of infrastructure. What we need are roads and bridges modernized, improved broadband, 5G and cybersecurity