“..we should also expect a president to be the custodian of this democracy. We should expect that regardless of ego, ambition, or political beliefs, the president will preserve, protect, and defend the freedoms and ideals that so many Americans marched for and went to jail for; fought for and died for.
That empathy, that decency, the belief that everybody counts — that’s who Joe is.
..Kamala Harris, he’s chosen an ideal partner who’s more than prepared for the job; someone who knows what it’s like to overcome barriers and who’s made a career fighting to help others live out their own American dream.
Along with the experience needed to get things done, Joe and Kamala have concrete policies that will turn their vision of a better, fairer, stronger country into reality.”
Barack Obama, Former President of the United States
2020 Democratic National Convention Speech
Inform
JOE BIDEN’S BOLD PLANS
We aren’t just going to rebuild what has worked in the past. This is our opportunity to build back better than ever.
Plan/agenda either To or For:
2. JOBS AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN FOR WORKING FAMILIES
3. RACIAL EQUITY ACROSS THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
4. 21ST CENTURY CAREGIVING AND EDUCATION WORKFORCE
5. MODERN, SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AND AN EQUITABLE CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE
6. ENSURE THE FUTURE IS “MADE IN ALL OF AMERICA” BY ALL OF AMERICA’S WORKERS
8. WOMEN
9. FULL PARTICIPATION AND EQUALITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
10. THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC
11. SET UP SUPPORT FOR DESERVING SMALL BUSINESSES
15. COMBAT CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) AND PREPARE FOR FUTURE GLOBAL HEALTH THREATS
16. BLACK AMERICA
17. BUILD SECURITY AND PROSPERITY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PEOPLE OF CENTRAL AMERICA
18. SECURING OUR VALUES AS A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS
19. KEEP OUR SACRED OBLIGATION TO OUR VETERANS
20. FULFILL OUR COMMITMENT TO MILITARY FAMILIES, CAREGIVERS, AND SURVIVORS
21. STRENGTHENING WORKER ORGANIZING, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND UNIONS
22. GUARANTEE GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR THE PEOPLE ( Campaign Finance and Government Reform)
23. EDUCATION BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL
24. END OUR GUN VIOLENCE EPIDEMIC
25. END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
26. STRENGTHENING AMERICA’S COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE (Criminal Justice Reform)
27. RURAL AMERICA
28. OLDER AMERICANS AND RETIREMENT
29. HEALTHCARE
30. RESTORING AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN THE WORLD
31. A CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (Climate Change)
32. EDUCATORS, STUDENTS, AND OUR FUTURE (The Biden Plan for K-12 Education)
33. HOUSING
34. LGBTQ+ EQUALITY
35. . END THE OPIOID AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE CRISIS
37. TRIBAL NATIONS
38. STUDENTS
39. THE ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY
40. THE INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY
42. MUSLIM-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
44. INVESTMENT IN MIDDLE CLASS COMPETITIVENESS
45. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND EQUITABLE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
46. THE ARAB AMERICAN COMMUNITY
47. RECOVERY, RENEWAL AND RESPECT FOR PUERTO RICO
48. MAKE NURSING HOMES AND LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES SAFE
49. FIGHT FOR WORKERS BY DELIVERING ON BUY AMERICA AND MAKE IT IN AMERICA
50. RESCUE AND REVITALIZE MAIN STREET
Four Newspapers Review The Plans
Vox
A. Joe Biden’s Extensive Policy Agenda explained.
Minimum Wage
Free College For Most
Enhancing The Affordable Care Act
Dramatic transformation of federal housing policy
A huge financial boost to schools with low-income students
A labor-friendly climate agenda
Major commitments on union organizing
Back to the future on immigration
B. Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Explained
Global health: Climate change and coronavirus
Alliances: “Build from the free world out”
Countering China requires “a democratic alliance to save the world”
Nuclear proliferation: Russian, North Korean, and Iranian efforts “a major problem”
Russia
North Korea
Iran
America’s wars: “It’s past time to end the forever wars”
C. Joe Biden’s Vision For America
His economic recovery plan would pay health insurance costs for newly unemployed people, offer middle-class parents and caretakers $8,000 a year for child or long-term care support, spend $700 billion on manufacturing and R&D to expand jobs in those sectors, and make it easier to organize unions.
His climate plan features $2 trillion in investments in clean energy and a clean electricity standard mandating that electricity production in the US not produce any carbon by the year 2035.
Biden’s four-point plan to “Build Back Better”
Plank 1: Clean energy
Plank 2: Caregiving
Plank 3: “Made in All of America”
Plank 4: Addressing the racial wealth gap
D. Joe Biden’s plan to beat the coronavirus
Step 1: Fix America’s test-trace-isolate problem
Step 2: Provide people, businesses, and states with more economic relief
Step 3: Fast and equitable use of an effective Covid-19 vaccine
The New York Times
E. Biden’s Covid Response Plan Draws From F.D.R.’s New Deal
Many of his ideas carry echoes of Roosevelt’s New Deal vision of the robust role the U.S. government should play in helping the nation recover from a crisis.
He would quickly appoint a national “supply chain commander” to coordinate the logistics of manufacturing and distributing protective gear and test kits, invoking the Defense Production Act more aggressively than Mr. Trump has to build up supplies.
Mr. Biden wants to mobilize at least 100,000 Americans for a “public health jobs corps” of contact tracers to help track and curb outbreaks. And he has even called for a “Pandemic Testing Board” to swell the supply of coronavirus tests — a play on Roosevelt’s War Production Board.
F. Running the Numbers on Biden’s Tax Policy
Moody’s has predicted that if Mr. Biden wins and Democrats control both the House and Senate, G.D.P. would be 4.5 percent larger at the end of 2024 than under current policies, with gains from stimulus spending outweighing drag from tax increases.
A group of economists including Kevin Hassett, a former chairman of Mr. Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, estimated that the long-run impact of Mr. Biden’s plans would cut G.D.P. per capita by 8 percent over the next decade.
The right-leaning American Enterprise Institute suggested the tax plan would shrink the economy by only 0.16 percent over the next 10 years, because it would largely tax the savings of high earners who are not big drivers of growth. Still, the proposals would discourage investment and hiring, it said.
Nature
G. What a Joe Biden presidency would mean for five key science issues
Pandemic response
Climate change
Research priorities
Space exploration
International research collaborations
Huffington Post
H. Biden Rolls Out Ambitious New Climate Plan, But Stops Short Of Phasing Out Fossil Fuels
I. Joe Biden Makes Caregiving A Central Part Of His New Economic Plan
J. Biden Releases Racial Equity Plan, Omits Reparations
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