Thursday, July 21, 2016

WPRI: Study: Low infrastructure spending makes RI an ‘outlier state’

By Ted Nesi
 Published: July 18, 2016, 5:10 pm  |  Updated: July 19, 2016, 11:10 am

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston says Rhode Island is an “outlier” among states because it has historically spent so little on capital projects such as road and bridge repairs.

The study by Ronald Fisher and Riley Sullivan of the Boston Fed’s New England Public Policy Center concludes: “Taking all of the evidence into account, the single outlier state is Rhode Island, which is shown to have had relatively low state and local government capital expenditure by every measure.” (Study: Why Is State and Local Government Capital Spending Lower in the New England States Than in Other U.S. States? p.19)

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