A CBS News poll in October showed that only 10 percent of the population said they knew "a lot of the specifics" of President Biden’s
Build Back Better bill. To me, that says that we need to get the other 90 percent of the country reading The American Prospect, because we’ve been focused on the
specifics of the legislation for months.
We’ve written over 85 articles and tens of thousands of words about what’s in this long-awaited public investment package, and how it will affect you. We created an entire section on our website called Building Back America to hold them all.
If everyone read the Prospect, the debate over the Biden agenda would be much different, based on facts and information and not political spin and personality. You’d know more about whether we’re devoting enough funding to fighting the next pandemic, or whether we can actually find all the lead water
pipes President Biden wants to remove, than whatever Joe Manchin has to say.
That’s part of the mission we have here at the Prospect: explaining the structures of power
in Washington, what’s being done with that power, and how it could be wielded to make progress for everyone.
And it’s a never-ending project. Once Build Back Better passes, we’ll be reporting on how it’s being implemented; whether ordinary people can access its benefits, whether lobbyists are hampering its impact. We’ll be reporting on the effort to get President Biden to supplement this agenda with executive actions in other areas, like taming Wall Street, fighting the climate crisis, and canceling student debt. And as always, we’ll be focusing on concentrated corporate power: how it’s affected low-wage workers, the supply chain mess, and much more. It’s been my honor to lead the Prospect editorial team over the past two years.
I can honestly say that we’re building one of the best newsrooms in the country. We are adding more staff and producing more stories than we have in years.
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