Joe in April, announcing “build back better”:
Updated 10 April: Daily Mail: Joe Biden turns left with first big outreach to vanquished Bernie Sanders as he proposes to lower the Medicare eligibility age to 60 and forgive some public student loan debts – as string of polls show him leading Donald Trump
Sanders announced Wednesday he is suspending his campaign
By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com and Associated Press
Biden unveiled plans to expand eligibility for Medicare and forgive college debt for millions of Americans in a Medium post (9 April), as the former vice president begins courting progressives whose support he will need against Donald Trump in November...
Biden kicked off his post with a discussion of the coronavirus, then called for the nation to ‘think big’ about how to achieve a long-term recovery.
‘Recovery will require long term changes to build a more inclusive and more resilient middle class, and a greener and more resilient economy. We have to think big — as big as the challenges we face. As we start to lay the groundwork for recovery, we have to ***build back better*** for the future,’ he wrote...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8205893/2016-repeat-Progressives-resist-quickly-unifying-Biden.html
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Wikipedia: Building Back Better
This article is about the United Nations program. For the slogan used by the former Vice President of the United States, see Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.
Building Back Better (BBB) is a program that was first officially used in the United Nations’ Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction document, which was agreed on at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held on March 14–18, 2015, in Sendai, Japan. The UN General Assembly adopted this document on June 3, 2015.
During the negotiation period for the Sendai Framework, the concept of “Build Back Better” was proposed by the Japanese delegation as a holistic concept which states: “The principle of ‘Build Back Better’ is generally understood to use the disaster as a trigger to create more resilient nations and societies than before. This was through the implementation of well-balanced disaster risk reduction measures, including physical restoration of infrastructure, revitalization of livelihood and economy/industry, and the restoration of local culture and environment”...
It was adopted by UN member states as one of four priorities in the Sendai Framework for disaster recovery, risk reduction and sustainable development...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Back_Better