One Year of the Biden-Harris Administration
COVID-19 Relief - The American Rescue Plan provided needed pandemic assistance much larger than the CAREs Act. Increased the child tax credit which led to what is estimated to be the lowest child poverty rate on record, and provided child care tax credits, which is the biggest investment in child care since World War II. It provided direct payments, as well as food, housing, and unemployment assistance. It also provided funding to small businesses, restaurants, and schools to help them reopen. It increased the Earned Income Tax Credit for frontline workers. More than $360 billion in emergency funding was provided for state, local, territorial, and Tribal municipalities, to maintain staff and vital services, including local law enforcement.
Health Care - Shots in arms and lives saved, with almost three-quarters of all U.S. adults now fully vaccinated. More Americans have health care coverage than ever before, due to healthcare credits and grants provided through the American Rescue Plan.
Economy/Jobs - Jobless claims are at a 50-year low, with an unemployment rate of 3.9%. Approximately 6% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, the highest growth since 1984.
Infrastructure – The historical Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which will create jobs, provide clean drinking water, upgrade our roads, airports, and rail, and is a critical first step toward a clean energy future. They’ve already released or announced $53 billion to modernize highways, $65 billion for high-speed internet, $7 billion for clean water, $3 billion for over 3,000 airports, and $240 million to improve ports.
Judges appointed - President Biden has appointed a group of 40 federal judges, confirmed in the Senate; the most for a new president since the Reagan era. Nearly 75% of Biden's picks have been women, and nearly 65% have been people of color.
Law Enforcement – In addition to American Rescue Plan funds provided to address pandemic crime surges, grants totaling nearly $140 million will go to 183 law enforcement agencies. This will create over 1,000 new law enforcement positions and fund other initiatives to build legitimacy and trust in communities, to address gun violence and other violent crimes.
Restored America’s Global Leadership - President Biden restored our global alliances and ended America’s longest war. For the first time in a generation, Americans are not deployed overseas in an ongoing war. The United States donated and delivered nearly 400 million vaccinations to developing countries – more than every other country in the world.
Took Aggressive Action to Tackle the Climate Crisis - President Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement and reestablished U.S. leadership at the global conference on climate change. He jumpstarted an electric future made in America, doubling electric vehicle sales in a year. He is deploying more wind and solar energy than ever before, addressing the long-lasting negative effects of legacy pollution and advancing environmental justice in underserved communities, and creating good-paying, union jobs that are making our country stronger and more resilient to the changing climate
