AGC Partners with State DOT Officials to Organize Pre-Labor Day Media Events Highlighting Stimulus Jobs

Send us your stimulus success story so we can share it with the media AGC is partnering with the American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials (AASHTO) to help organize media events across the country in advance of Labor Day.  AASHTO will be recruiting state transportation officials and helping them organize media events, picnics and/or speeches designed to highlight how the stimulus' transportation funds are helping AGC member companies save or add jobs.  For its part, AGC is working with all of its highway Chapters to identify member companies that are doing stimulus-funded transportation work.  We'll connect those companies with the state officials so they can hold their events at one of their construction sites and/or highlight their stimulus success stories with the media. As a result, please tell us about your stimulus success stories.  If you are currently doing stimulus-funded work and have been able to save or add jobs, please let us know.  We are especially looking for interesting anecdotes about these saved or added jobs.  For example, we've heard about how stimulus-funded work has helped people keep their homes out of foreclosure, and how getting a stimulus-funded job even gave a woman in Colorado the financial stability she needed to get engaged.  Please let us know if you know of a similar story. Send your stories, or questions, to Brian Turmail at turmailb@agc.org or (703) 837-5310.