Spencer Slagowitz is a freshman at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University where he intends to study International Political Economy and Economics. Spencer is a veteran of six local and national political campaigns, a former policy intern for NY State Senator Adriano Espaillat, and a former field intern for the bipartisan non-profit No Labels. He currently resides in D.C where he is an editorial assistant for the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs and manages Popular Discourse, an undergraduate blog on politics and policy.
Infrastructure investment is a perennial staple in the American political diet. Journalists, politicians and pundits idolize ambitious infrastructure programs as economic silver bullets, single-handedly capable of propelling the US out of its slow-growth blues. The US’s crumbling infrastructure has also ...