The story of America’s faltering infrastructure (deteriorating roads and bridges and strained waterways and ports) is playing out in ways that consumers, manufacturers and suppliers are feeling.

Missouri has an aging highway network, overburdened bridges, strained ports and waterways, climate impacts, and supply chain and transit challenges. But federal infrastructure investment is helping the “Show Me State” embrace a strong future.

WATCH our video -- Gallup senior scientist Frank Newport, Ph.D., wrote that “every bit of polling evidence I have reviewed shows that Americans are extremely supportive of new government infrastructure legislation.”

One of the fastest growing cities in the Midwest is Kansas City, Mo., and infrastructure investment is one of its bread-and-butter issues. “If federal funding and federal collaborations with cities and municipalities diminish, America will fall behind,” says Kansas City Councilman Jermaine Reed.