1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Transportation Infrastructure for Job Creation Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Investments in infrastructure create jobs while fulfilling critical needs in communities throughout the United States. (2) According to the Brookings Institution, nearly 14.5 million workers—11 percent of the U.S. workforce—were employed in infrastructure jobs in 2013. (3) According to data from the Brookings Institution, infrastructure occupations often provide more competitive and equitable wages in comparison to all jobs nationally, consistently paying up to 30 percent more to low-income workers over the past decade. (4) The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the infrastructure of the United States an overall grade of D+ in 2017 and estimated that the United States will need to invest $4.59 trillion by 2025 in order to improve the condition of the Nation’s infrastructure and bring it to a state of good repair. (5) The American Society of Civil Engineers assigned a D grade to the Nation’s roads, a C+ grade to the Nation’s bridges, and a D− grade to the Nation’s transit systems and estimated that the United States will need to invest $2.04 trillion by 2025 to bring the Nation’s surface transportation infrastructure to a state of good repair. (6) TIGER, formally known as the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant program, is a nationwide competitive grant program that creates jobs by funding investments in transportation infrastructure by States, local governments, and transit agencies. (7) TIGER funds projects that will have a significant impact on the Nation, a metropolitan area, or a region. (8) In distributing grants under TIGER, the Secretary of Transportation is required to ensure an equitable geographic distribution of funds, a balance in addressing the needs of urban and rural areas, and investments in a variety of modes of transportation. (9) TIGER received an appropriation of $600,000,000 in fiscal year 2014, an appropriation of