Business | The age of America's infrastructure

Not getting any younger

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By N.B. | WASHINGTON, DC

MICHAEL MANDEL of the left-leaning Progressive Policy Institute posted this useful chart earlier this month:

Illustration of a row of buildings that get larger, the last being a skyscraper that has shine lines coming off it

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