Posted on 01/15/2021 3:13:23 PM PST by rktman
President-($)elect Joe Biden on Thursday night announced his American Rescue Plan, which he said "will tackle the pandemic and get direct financial assistance and relief to Americans who need it the most."
The plan comes with a big price tag ($1.9 trillion) and lofty promises, as Biden described:
Direct cash payments, extended unemployment insurance, rent relief, food assistance, keeping essential frontline workers on the job, aid to small businesses. These are the key elements to the American Rescue Plan that would lift 12 million Americans out of poverty and cut child poverty in half. That's 5 million children lifted out of poverty if we move.
Our plan will reduce poverty in the black community by one-third. It will reduce poverty in the Hispanic community by almost 40 percent and it includes much more, like an increase in the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour. People tell me that's going to be hard to pass. Florida just passed it. As divided as that state is, they just passed it. The rest of the country is ready to move as well.
It should be a national minimum wage of $15 an hour. No one working 40 hours a week should live below the poverty line. That's what it means. If you work for less than $15 an hour and work 40 hours a week, you're living in poverty. It includes access to affordable childcare that will enable parents, particularly women, to get back to work.
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Maybe he’ll promise $2K to everyone like a total moron.
The senile old goof is having a flashback to the ‘60s.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.....
I guess they were just as clueless then as they are now.
“Summer of Recovery 1B”, coming up...
1.9 trillion to bail 12 million out of poverty.....uhhhhhhh, that’s a solution???????
At least in old Uncle Joe's eyes..
This dude is as nutty as gram’s Christmas fruit cake...two years shy of 80 and it is showing already...
Let's Roar Like Lions, voters...demand our Congress get TERM AND AGE LIMITS.
Joe’s always thinking about the children.
“...cut child poverty in half..”
What about the other half, why does he hate them so much? He must really enjoy seeing children suffer and die.
BULL DROPPINGS
Rainbow stew and free bubble up.🙄
12 and under.
Biden’s Going to ‘Lift 12M Americans Out of Poverty and Cut Child Poverty in Half’
To lift 12 million out of poverty, he will reduce fifty million from the middle class to the edge of poverty.
Butt $15/hr?👍😏
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