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Cory Booker: “But as a person with vast business experience, understanding how balance sheets work, people who are concerned about…”

On the recordJanuary 17, 2017
But as a person with vast business experience, understanding how balance sheets work, people who are concerned about debt to GDP ratio, investments in infrastructure, especially in the region that you and I both know best, you might call it the greater New York metropolitan area, I call it the greater Newark metropolitan area, you understand that investing in infrastructure produces two to three dollars of return in economic growth, and that could be a wise business investment; yes?
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker argues that infrastructure investment yields significant economic returns.

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