President-elect Joe Biden again mentioned his father, in the working-class town of Scranton, Pa., Who told him, after losing his job: “A job is much more than a check at the end of the month, it’s a question of dignity. “
His future secretary of the Treasury, the former president of the American Federal Reserve (Fed, central bank), Janet Yellen, also spoke of his father, a doctor at the bedside of New York workers in Brooklyn, explaining the damage of the loss of a job on their family, their health and their dignity.
Then it was the turn of Neera Tanden, future budget manager, to talk about her mother, an immigrant from India, divorced, who raised her children with the help of food stamps and by finding a job in a travel agency. “I am here today thanks to the courage of my mother, but also thanks to a country which has trusted us, which has invested in our humanity and in our dreams. I am here today thanks to social programs. Due to budgetary choices ”, explained Mme Tanden, former director of the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress, at the presentation, Tuesday 1er December, from Joe Biden’s Economics Team.
Future Deputy Treasury Director Wally Adeyemo, 38, from Nigeria, mentioned his collaboration with the Obama teams and progressive Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, where he was chief of staff after the great financial crisis of 2008.
Joe Biden’s economic program can be summed up in three words: “Jobs, jobs, jobs”. He defends the American dream, but accompanied by the aid essential to its realization for the weakest.
Labor specialists
This is how a team made up of labor specialists, pro-unions, veterans of the Obama administration, who had to manage the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, supporters of a Keynesian stimulus policy, largely made up of women and people of immigrant background, will seize economic power in Washington.
Added to the aforementioned are Princeton academic Cecilia Rouse, who will chair the White House economic council, and left-wing economist Jared Bernstein, who was already advising Biden under Obama.
In this very political presentation, not a moment was devoted to international economic and trade affairs. The immediate emergency is support for the American worker, while the last social measures expired this summer and the Covid-19 pandemic is starting again strongly. “Help is on the way”, repeated Joe Biden twice. In fact, not quite. The elected president will not take office until January 20. And a new version of a stimulus plan of 900 billion dollars (745 billion euros) was presented on Tuesday by Democratic and Republican senators, but its adoption is not certain.
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