East Side Access is a public-works project being undertaken by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York City.

Economists attributed the growth to the government's heavy investment in public-works projects, which has finally ignited consumer spending.

She favors public-works projects and tax credits for investment in industry to create jobs, as well as more Federal support for education and cities.

Not if it was a public-works project.

That surge in revenues and profits reflects the Mexican Government's innovative way of getting public-works projects built.

If I had known that this was going to entail forcing private-sector nincompoops to do public-works projects, I'd've told Kirk to go hang himself.

And as a public-works project, building it would be something she could take full part in.

The public-works projects required human labor pools, now that sophisticated computerized machines had been banned.

This could be in the form of subsidies to employers, job sharing, public-works projects, or targeted tax cuts.

Partly because of Professor Sen's findings, governments have focused less on direct distribution of food and more on replacing the lost income of the poor, through, for example, public-works projects that create jobs.