Biden successes? Besides a successful vaccination campaign:
President Biden (10:27): Before I took office, the average initial claims for unemployment insurance were over 830,000. This morning, we learned that number has fallen below 460,000 — cut in half the — and we’re at the lowest level we’ve seen since March 2020 when the pandemic first struck. Before I took office, almost 24 million Americans were going hungry. Marcy has heard me say this before: Did you ever think you’d see people lined up for miles and miles and miles, going into a stadium to get someone to put a box of food in their trunk? People who never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever thought they’d need that kind of help. Well, that number of hungry Americans — food-starved Americans — has dropped by 30 percent. Still too many, but there’s clear progress. Before I took office, independent experts were projecting that our economy would grow at 3 to 4 percent in the year 2021. But they’re now projecting that growth will be 6 percent or higher in 2021 — the fastest growth in this country in 40 years.
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