"Hardhats for Highways" Campaign Launched to Alert Congress to HIghway Trust Fund Crisis

With the federal Highway Trust Fund projected to be unable to support any new highway, bridge and public transportation improvements in fiscal year 2015, a national coalition of associations and labor unions has launched a campaign to help educate Congress about the connection between local jobs and federal highway and transit investment. "Hardhats for Highways" is aimed at encouraging transportation construction firms and their employees to contact their U.S. representative and senators and let them know how many local jobs depend on federal transportation funding, officials with the Transportation Construction Coalition said. "Members of Congress need to understand how many people back home are counting on federal transportation investments," said Stephen E. Sandherr, the coalition's co-chair and chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors of America. "Investing in roads and bridges not only makes our broader economy more efficient and vibrant, it puts a lot of men and women to work in every part of the country." Learn more at www.HardhatsforHighways.org.