The American Society of Civil Engineers has released its 2021 Report Card for America's Infrastructure — the latest quadrennial assessment of the nation's infrastructure. The report card gives the U.S. an overall C- grade and finds the country is spending just over half of what is required to support the backbone of the economy.
The study evaluated 17 categories of infrastructure, with grades ranging from a B for rail to a D- for transit. For the first time in 20 years, the country's infrastructure as a whole received a grade in the C range, meaning on average that the nation's infrastructure is in mediocre
