What Biden’s State of the Union Should Do
Today’s 3.4 percent unemployment rate is the lowest recorded in half a century—but most Americans don’t know why that is.
Next week, the president needs to tell them.
“When President Joe Biden delivers his second State of the Union address on February 7, he has an opportunity to tell the American people something they haven’t heard before: the story of today’s economic transformation, and the dramatic shift in policy thinking behind it,” Roosevelt President and CEO Felicia Wong writes in a new Washington Monthly piece.
As she explains, the administration’s hard-won achievements of the last two years—from the American Rescue Plan to the CHIPS and Science Act to the Inflation Reduction Act—didn’t just save a COVID-battered economy and set it on a better path.
“Biden’s administration has broken with more than 40 years of anti-government orthodoxy to fashion a new economic strategy—investing in people, investing in places,” Wong writes.
“The story Biden tells at this State of the Union should be simple: We know what doesn’t work, and we know what does. We’re putting the old economics aside and instead investing in ourselves.”
Read more in “President Biden Should Aim Higher in His State of the Union Address.”
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