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Democrats Work to Improve Lives
It's time to go on the offensive when it comes to government and politics. The Democratic party is working to make all people's lives better. The Republican party has become the party of culture wars and performative extremism.
Each week we highlight one FACT that you can share with non-believers. It's up to us to change the GOP misinformation narrative!
Know the facts and spread them widely. Click here for sortable database of DemFacts. Click here for facts sorted by category.
Fact!The Biden-Harris administration has taken action to protect abortion rights and fight for reproductive freedoms, including access to FDA-approved medication abortion, affordable contraception, and accurate information.
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Additional facts:
- May 2, 2024 marked two years since the leaked SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade
- More than 20 states have an abortion ban
- Extreme 6-week abortion ban went into effect in Florida on May 1, 2024, affecting women in the entire southeast
- Nearly half of all U.S. reproductive-age women live in states where abortion is either completely banned or banned after 6 weeks
- 1 in 3 women in the US aged 15-44 live under an abortion ban
- Abortion bans negatively impact women of color at a disproportional rate
Sources: Steve Rattner, WSJ, The White House, AP News, KFF, NY Times, Washington Post
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Biden-Harris announces the most impactful background checks ruling on gun sales since the Brady Bill passed in 1993.
Timeline:
- June 2022: bipartisan Safer Communities Act passed
- August 2023: Biden signed EO directing the DOJ to clarify the Act in order to get as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation
- May 2024: new rule goes into effect
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Sources: PBS, Politico, The White House, Federal Register
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Biden has done more to combat the climate emergency and address environmental justice than any other administration, including rolling back many of Trump's harmful policies.
There is more to do, including a recommitment to reducing single use plastics and reducing reliance on fossil fuels, but a second term for Biden would allow him to continue to do impactful climate work. "This president is a president that young people can push." —Anderson Clayton, the youngest Democratic state party chair (NC)
A Trump presidency and Republican control would be disastrous to the future of our planet, as they would attempt to dismantle all the progress Biden has made.
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Sources: Sources: American Progress, The Guardian, The White House, DNWSG
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Black Maternal Health Week is April 11-17. In the US, Black women face higher risks than White women during and after pregnancy.
- Black women are 3X as likely to die in childbirth than White women
- Black women are 2X as likely to lose an infant to premature death as White women
- Postpartum depression is 1.6X higher for Black women than White women
- The United States is the only developed country with a rising maternal mortality rate (89% higher in 2021 than in 2018)
- In Congress, Reps Alma Adams and Lauren Underwood formed the Black Maternal Health Caucus and to create change through the Momnibus Act
- In New York, Gov Hochul signed the Community Doula Directory, a bill sponsored by NYS Senator Samra Brouk which will ensure that doula care is more accessible to families who need it
- The Biden-Harris administration created a Blueprint For Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis to increase access to high quality maternal healthcare
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Sources: CDC, IFDHE, The Century Foundation, Black Mamas Matter Alliance
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The Biden-Harris administration and the EPA announced $20 billion in grants to deliver clean energy and climate solutions across America, with a focus on low income and disadvantaged communities. Read more here about the 8 organizations that were selected to receive these grants under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion program funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. This investment will help increase access to capital in underserved communities, lower energy costs, and build a clean energy economy.
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Sources: The White House, Environmental Protection Agency
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"When Democrats are in the White House, things get better for America." —Simon Rosenberg
Since 1989, 51 million new jobs have been created in America. 49 million, or 96% of those jobs were created under the last 3 Democratic presidents: Biden, Obama, and Clinton. In addition, job growth in Biden's first three years in office has been faster than his last four predecessors.
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Sources: Simon Rosenberg, Politico
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The Biden-Harris administration is committed to expanding research into women's health.
- First ever White House Initiative on Women's Health Research
- Executive order to direct $200 million to fund new women's health research
- Goal to improve women's health across their lifespan
- Eliminating reproductive freedom
- Banning mifepristone
- Eliminating funding for contraception
- Endorsing the "Life at Conception" act which could lead to restrictions on IVF treatment
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Sources: White House, Reuters
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The Biden-Harris administration believes that improving the fiscal strength of our country will benefit all Americans. The Biden-Harris budget proposal would have a very different outcome on the deficit and our economy than Trump's policy proposals.
Biden's plan would result in a decrease to the deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade, while a Trump presidency could result in an increase in the deficit of up to $5.3 trillion.
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Sources: Briefing Book Substack, The White House, CRFB, Brian Deese
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In his SOTU address, Biden called for an increase in teacher salaries. Here are some facts about teacher pay:
- Average teacher salary has declined by 6.4% ($3,644) over the last decade (adjusted for inflation)
- Teachers make about 33 percent less than other college-educated professionals in the US
- 34 states have starting teacher salaries below $40,000 a year
- In 30 states the average teacher salary is below the state's living wage
- 40% of full-time K-12 education support professionals earn less than $25,000 annually
- Top 5 states with highest average salary are in BLUE states, bottom 5 with lowest average salary are in RED states!
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Sources: World Population Review, National Education Association, Education Resource Strategies
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Biden is delivering on his promise to fix the student debt system and make higher education more affordable for middle class and working families. Despite SCOTUS rejecting Biden's initial executive order to help tens of millions of Americans, the administration has taken several actions and so far has forgiven $138 billion in student loans.
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Sources: Bharat Ramamurti, White House, Slate, Robert Hubbell
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By a wide margin, the US has had the highest cumulative real (inflation-adjusted) economic growth of any G-7 country post-Covid. And is projected to continue to outpace the other countries in 2024.
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Source: Steve Rattner, Axios
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A Trump presidency will result in more tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations along with a sky-rocketing deficit. Biden will continue to add revenue through taxes on billionaires along with a promise not to support tax increases on middle class families.
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Sources: Bharat Ramamurti, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Tax Policy Center, White House, American Progress
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"President Biden has done more than any president to tackle climate change. Voters don’t seem to know it." NY Times
- $370 billion to reduce carbon pollution by boosting the production of wind, solar and other renewable energy through IRA
- Millions of dollars in tax credits to homeowners and consumers to move away from fossil fuels through IRA
- Funding for clean energy infrastructure to provide support against the impact of climate change through BIL
- $3 billion pledge to the Green Climate Fund. The GCF is the largest international fund dedicated to supporting developing countries to tackle climate change
- Created over 210,000 clean energy jobs in the last 15 months, with an additional 1.5 million jobs projected to be created over the next decade
- Full details here
Here are some things Trump has said about clean energy and what he will do as President:
- Calls renewable energy a "scam business"
- Vows to "drill, baby, drill"
- Withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement (again)
- Repeal “crooked Joe Biden’s insane electric vehicle mandate”
- Approve a glut of new gas export terminals currently paused by Biden
- “End [Biden's] war on American energy”
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The unemployment rate for Black workers is at historic lows, but it is still higher than for white workers. As of January, the white unemployment rate was 3.4% while the Black unemployment rate was 5.3%.
2023 saw the lowest Black unemployment rate of any year on record, and a decrease in the racial unemployment gap. However, we need to continue to push for policies that will further reduce the gap. Read more here.
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Sources: FRED, BLS, The White House
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The Biden-Harris administration has helped negotiate a bipartisan border bill, but extremist GOP House members would rather choose party over country. Instead of supporting the bill, which is both tough and fair, they would rather reject the bill, refuse funding, and not work together towards finding a solution to the border crisis.
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Sources: The White House, The Washington Post
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Immigration is good for New York! NYC Comptroller, Brad Lander has published a report called, "Facts, Not Fear: How Welcoming Immigrants Benefits New York City." Learn the truth about immigration and how it benefits our economy.
- In 2021, immigrant New Yorkers paid $61 billion dollars in taxes and constituted $138 billion dollars in spending power.
- In New York State, undocumented immigrants paid $3 billion in taxes.
- Undocumented immigrants are the backbone of many vital industries across New York. 70% of undocumented workers in New York are essential workers.
- New York City’s workforce has shrunk since the pandemic. Growing our workforce by welcoming new arrivals will help address labor shortages and bolster our city’s post-pandemic economic recovery.
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Sources: NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, American Immigration Council
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A citizen-led petition initiative in Florida is one step closer to getting onto the November ballot. If it does, Floridians will have the opportunity to vote to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. This is hugely important for the rights and freedoms of Floridians, the 3rd most populous state. Equally important, Florida is a safe haven for women seeking abortions across the south east, as the surrounding states have abortion bans in place, so the results will have a far reaching impact on women's access to reproductive care.
Additional facts about abortion access in Florida:
- 4th highest number of abortions of all states
- Biggest state increase in number of abortions post Dobbs
- 90% of abortions occurred before the end of the 9th week
- The number of out-of-state abortions increased by 68% in 2022
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Sources: AP News, Politico, KFF, The Guardian
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The Biden-Harris economy ended strong in 2023.
- Inflation continued to fall and is down to 3.1%
- Real wage growth for the average American (adjusted for inflation) is up 6.6%
- Unemployment rate is historically low at 3.7%
- The economy exceeded expectations
- Consensus is that we've achieved a soft landing going into 2024
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Source: Steve Rattner, New York Times, The White House
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The Biden-Harris administration continued to take actions in 2023 aimed at improving all lives, including:
- lowering inflation, including capping the price of insulin
- creating manufacturing jobs and investing in infrastructure projects across the country
- reducing student debt and investing in HBCUs
- tackling the climate crisis and advancing environmental justice
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Source: The White House
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**2023**
The majority of Americans have a pessimistic view of our economy, despite data that shows the economy is strong.
"By many measures — unemployment, inflation, the stock market — the economy is strong. Yet only 23 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the right direction." —Steve Rattner, NY Times Opinion
For example:
- 73% think inflation is higher than a year ago. However, inflation has fallen from 7.7% in Oct 2022 to 3.2% in Oct 2023.
- 51% think unemployment is higher today than it was 30 years ago. In fact, unemployment rate was 6.5% at the end of 1993, compared to the current rate of 3.7%.
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Sources: Steve Rattner, US Inflation Calculator, NY Times
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The Biden-Harris economic plan is working for the American people.
- 2021 and 2022 were the two strongest years of job growth in history
- Nearly 11 million jobs have been created during this administration, including 750,000 manufacturing jobs
- Unemployment is at a 50-year low
- Black and Hispanic Americans, and people with disabilities have near record low unemployment rates
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Source: The White House
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Abortion bans lead to more children placed in foster care.
- A study conducted by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Bentley University found an 11% increase in children entering the foster system in states where abortion access is restricted
- Children from marginalized racial and ethnic communities are most at risk
- Since SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, 23 states have enacted restrictions on abortion access, with total bans in 14 states
- 25 million women of child bearing age in the US (1/3 of women ages 15-45) live in areas where abortion care is severely restricted
- With over 4 million children in the US placed into foster care between 2000 and 2020, many states are already facing overburdened foster care systems
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Sources: AAF, BIDMC, Harvard Medical School
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Inflation is down and real wages are up!
The prices of most goods and services continues to come down, while the unemployment rate remains low and stable. As a result of a strong labor market, real wages are higher than a year ago, and higher than pre-pandemic levels.
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Sources: Daniel Hornung, US Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Democrats are outperforming election expectations, while Republicans continue to try to take away rights and freedoms from the American people.
Since Dobbs, voters are choosing to keep their rights, giving Democrats wins across the country despite contrary polling. Read more here.
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Source: Simon Rosenberg
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The House GOP wants to offset emergency aid to Israel with funding cuts to the IRS. The only problem: cutting IRS funds increases the deficit.
- For every $1 the US spends auditing someone in the top 0.1%, it gets back $6.30
- According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the Republicans' proposed $14 billion cut to IRS funding would cost the US over $26 billion in revenues, leading to a net deficit increase of $12 billion over the next decade
- If passed, would set a dangerous precedent by requiring emergency national security assistance to come from cuts elsewhere
- The GOP House package provides nothing for Ukraine or for humanitarian aid to Gaza
- Republicans are prioritizing billionaires over national security and a humanitarian crisis
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Source: Steve Rattner, PBS News Hour
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Firearms are the leading cause of death for American children and teens.
- Nearly 2,500 children and teens die by gun homicide every year.
- For children under the age of 13, these gun homicides most frequently occur in the home and are often connected to domestic or family violence.
- Black children and teens are 17X more likely than white children and teens of the same age to die by gun homicide.
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Source: Everytown Research and Policy
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Just a reminder that with the *exact same margin* that Republicans currently have, Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act, American Rescue Plan, Infrastructure package, gun safety law, PACT Act, CHIPS Act, and reauthorized VAWA.
The GOP chaos caucus can't even choose a Speaker.
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Sources: Brian Tyler Cohen, Jeff Tiedrich
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In the face of a global crisis like the one the world witnessed when Israel, our ally, was brutally attacked by Hamas terrorists, we need strong leadership from our government now more than ever.
The Biden-Harris administration had a clear and immediate response, showing strength and compassion, and The White House has stated it will continue to ensure Israel has what it needs to defend itself and its people from terrorist attacks, while working to protect innocent people and civilians.
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Source: The White House
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The last time the federal minimum wage was increased was in 2009 (to $7.25).
Of the 23 times Congress approved an increase, Democrats held the majority all but two of those times.
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Source: PolitiFact, U.S. Department of Labor
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While it is good news that Congress avoided a government shutdown, we should never have been in this position in the first place. This was a crisis manufactured by the extremist Republicans in the House. President Biden and Speaker McCarthy had already negotiated a budget agreement in June. McCarthy went back on his word and it was the House Democrats who bailed us out.
A shutdown would hurt small businesses, would delay paychecks to our service members, disrupt social security payments to seniors and those with disabilities, cause TSA and air traffic controller shortages, and more.
The government now has 45 days to agree on a budget, and it is imperative that it include continued funding to Ukraine.
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Sources: The White House, CNN
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The Biden-Harris Administration continues to make the climate crisis a priority. This week the White House announced it will:
- Direct federal agencies to factor in climate related costs into their budgeting.
- Launch through the EPA a $4.6 billion grant competition for states to cut climate pollution and advance environmental justice.
- Launch the American Climate Corps, a New Deal-style initiative to give young people the training necessary to begin careers in clean energy and a climate resilience economy, in order to create pathways to good paying green jobs for the next generation.
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Sources: The White House, PBS, Senator Schumer
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The expanded child tax credit (CTC), part of the American Rescue Plan, led to a record low child poverty rate of 5.2%. Unfortunately, less than a year after it took effect, Congress let it expire. Since then, the child poverty rate has more than doubled to 12.4%.
Outcomes of expanded CTC:
- Child poverty dropped from 9.7% to 5.2%
- Kept over 2 million children above the poverty line
- Lessened differences in poverty rates between children of all races and ethnicities
- Over 90% of low-income families used their monthly payments to buy food, pay utility bills, make housing payments, buy clothing, and cover education costs
- An estimated 3.4 million more children are in poverty
- The child poverty rate has more than doubled to 12.4%
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Sources: US Census, Vox, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities, Center on Policy and Social Policy
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The Biden-Harris administration is working to lower healthcare and prescription drug prices for older and disabled Americans. The latest announcement gives Medicare the ability to negotiate the maximum price of ten life-saving prescription drugs. These drugs cost Americans $3.4 billion in out-of-pocket expenses last year, and cost the government $50 billion.
An overwhelming majority of voters support the decision to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices. Not a single Republican voted in favor of it, choosing instead to side with Big Pharma.
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Sources: The White House, Data for Progress, The Democrats
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Happy Labor Day!
"When the middle class does well, everyone does well." —President Biden, 9/1/23
The August jobs report is strong under Biden-Harris.
- 187,000 new jobs in August
- 800k are from manufacturing sector
- Avg hourly earnings +0.2% (+4.3% YOY)
- Unemployment rate 3.8% (up slightly but still at historically low levels)
- 13.5 million jobs created so far under Biden. That's 7X jobs created in the 16 years of the last 3 Republican Presidents combined
- Trump was one of two presidents to leave office with fewer jobs than when he started
Since 1989, there's been 49 million new jobs created in the US. Of those, 47 million (96%) were created under Democratic Presidents. These are the facts. Republican policies do not help grow our economy. Bidenomics is working!
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Sources: Simon Rosenberg, Bureau of Labor Statistics, The White House
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Democrats celebrate Women's Equality Day and honor the suffragist movement by reintroducing the Freedom to Vote act in Congress. Meanwhile, Republicans introduce bills that make it harder for you to vote, including attempting to restrict the ability to pass ballot measures.
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Sources: Heather Cox Richardson, Brennan Center for Justice, Democracy Docket
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The Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act is good for the economy and the American people. And every House Republican voted against it.
Inflation Reduction Act One Year Anniversary:
- Price of insulin capped at $35 per month
- 15 million Americans saving $800/year on healthcare
- Inflation rate down from 8.5% to 3.2%
- 170,000 jobs created in clean energy manufacturing
- Improvements in IRS customer service
- During this time, the deficit was lowered by $1.7 trillion
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Sources: The White House, The Democrats
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The top ten states with the highest maternal mortality rates are also taking away reproductive healthcare.
"Pro-life" is a lie.
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Sources: VP Kamala Harris, Politico, World Population Review
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The Biden-Harris administration has created a framework to combat the existential threat of climate change and environmental inequalities, and drive manufacturing so the U.S. can be a leader in the global clean energy economy.
Over $200 billion in green technology and semiconductor investments have been announced since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act & the CHIPS Act.
Use this tool to find projects supported by these important policies.
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Source: Steve Rattner, Financial Times, The White House
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Republicans are anti-immigration. Contrary to the GOP talking point that immigrants are stealing jobs from Americans, a robust immigration policy is good for the economy and benefits everyone:
- With strong immigration levels, GDP per capita is projected to be $16,000 higher by 2040 than with low levels
- Migrants tend to work in industries where we have labor shortages, and are more willing to move to where workers are needed
- A bigger workforce leads to a growing economy, which increases productivity, eases inflation, and raises real wages
- Immigrants boost innovation, which leads to improvements in living standards
- Immigrants paid $467 billion in taxes in 2019
Sources: FWD.us, The White House, American Immigration Council
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The Biden-Harris administration has a comprehensive immigration/border policy to help the economy, while the GOP plan is barbaric and hurts the economy.
Texas Gov Abbott is constructing a dangerous floating barrier in the Rio Grande that violates federal law. Biden's border plan, since going into effect, has reduced southern border crossings by 70%.
While we need controlled border crossings, at the same time, a robust immigration policy will boost the economy by tightening the labor shortage.
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Sources: Heather Cox Richardson, Paul Krugman, FWD.us, US Congress
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Inflation has come down every month for the last twelve months and is currently at 3%. Add to this the unemployment rate remains at near historic lows and the share of working-age Americans who are employed is at its highest level in over 20 years.
#Bidenomics adds up to a strong economy!
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Sources: Simon Rosenberg, The White House
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Under Biden, the economy is growing at 3 times the rate it did under Trump. Read Simon Rosenberg's latest jobs report to learn more.
#Bidenomics, rebuilding from the middle out and the bottom up, is having a positive impact on our economy.
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Sources: Simon Rosenberg, Bureau of Economic Analysis
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Republican controlled state legislatures are taking away your right to decide when to start a family, yet they do nothing to protect your job or paycheck while you're pregnant or caring for a child.
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Sources: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, New York Times, New America
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New manufacturing construction is growing rapidly under Biden, the first time we've seen such growth in decades.
Trump's attempts to boost spending through tax cuts and a trade war were unsuccessful.
Construction spending by manufacturers more than doubled in the last year to $190 billion.
Good news for the U.S. economy and for job growth.
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Biden has created over 13 million jobs since taking office. That is more jobs in 28 months than any President has created in an entire 4-year term, and 7x as many jobs created as the last 3 GOP Presidents combined.
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If you haven’t already, we encourage you to read the entire Trump Indictment, and to arm yourself with the facts. The GOP misinformation spin is it is unprecedented for an ex-President, and one who is running again, to be indicted.
What is truly unprecedented is that an ex-President would steal highly classified documents that could put the United States and its allies at risk if they fell into the wrong hands, store them in spaces that were accessible to tens of thousands of people, including many foreign nationals, refuse to return them, and tell his lawyers to lie about it.
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Sources: Heather Cox Richardson, David Pepper, New York Times, original indictment document
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Joe Biden is a good President, and we are better off since he took office. Biden's first 2 years have seen the biggest economic recovery from COVID in the G7, the lowest unemployment rate in 54 years, and he continues to enact policy to lower the deficit. Trump's first 2 years in office were mired in investigations, criminal convictions of his associates, and chaos as he spiraled the deficit with tax cuts for the rich and rolled back gun safety rules and global reproductive rights.
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Sources: Simon Rosenberg, The White House, NPR, American Progress, U.S. Bureau of Labor, Center for Reproductive Rights
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"Republicans don’t care about debt and deficits. What McCarthy and Trump care about is pushing the economy into a recession to weaken Biden [at the expense of the American people]." —Simon Rosenberg
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Sources: Heather Cox Richardson, Simon Rosenberg
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State Elections Matter.
America is seeing the greatest gap in life expectancy across regions in the last 40 years. Explanations include economy, poverty, food insecurity, access to healthcare - all consequences of policy decisions at the state level.
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Source: Jeremy Ney, American Inequality
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The debt ceiling has been raised more under Republican presidents than Democratic ones. Dems voted along with Republicans to raise the debt ceiling THREE times under Trump. This should not be a negotiation. America pays its debts.
The Republican Default on America Act would lead us closer to recession and negatively impact people's daily lives.
Republicans don't care about debt. They want to create a recession to hurt Biden.
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Sources: Simon Rosenberg, Jessica Craven, The White House
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The economy continues to improve under the Biden administration.
The overall unemployment rate in April was 3.4%, the lowest rate since 1953. And the Black unemployment rate fell to an historic low in April of 4.7%.
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Source: Steve Rattner
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The Republican agenda is out of touch with Americans.
A recent poll shows a majority of voters support or strongly support legislation from Democratic-led states Michigan and Minnesota, while they oppose or strongly oppose legislation coming from Republican-led state Florida.
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Sources: The States Project, Data for Progress
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The IRS delivered dramatically improved service this year
- Level of Service skyrocketed from 15% to 87%
- Average hold time decreased from 27 minutes to 4 minutes
- Launched 2 new digital tools
- Enabled a new direct-deposit refund option
- Opened 17 new Taxpayer Assistance Centers - served 107,000 more taxpayers than during the same period in 2022
- Cleared the backlog of unprocessed 2022 individual tax returns with no errors
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Virtually every major crime category is lower in Manhattan now than it was last year (as of 4/2/23).
Also of note: The murder rate in Columbus, Ohio (adjacent to Jim Jordan's district) is 3X higher than in NYC.
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Contrary to the GOP misinformation narrative, more than 100 studies over the last 30 years show that the drug mifepristone, used to perform medication abortions and miscarriages, is safe. More than 99% of patients taking the pill had no serious complications.
This compares to a rising maternal death rate in the U.S. each year, and an even higher rate for Black women.
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Developed nations with low gun ownership rates have significantly fewer gun deaths than in the U.S.
Gun ownership rate in the U.S. is 120 firearms per 100 civilians. This is 6X higher than the average of the countries shown in the graph; the gun death rate is nearly 8X higher.
Countries include: Australia, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
Source: World Population Review, 2019 and 2017 data
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Democratic administrations prioritize job growth:
- 16 years of GOP presidents (Bush, Bush Jr, Trump) = 1.9 million new jobs
- 16 years of Dem presidents (Clinton and Obama) = 33.8 million new jobs
- First 2 years of Biden presidency = 12.1 million new jobs
Sources: Simon Rosenberg, NDN
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The maternal death rate in the U.S. is rising. And it is even higher for Black women. Yet the GOP is barring people from life-saving pregnancy care.
Sources: Simon Rosenberg, CDC
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The change in the Unemployment Rate has been lower under Democratic Presidents (average -3 pts) than Republican Presidents (average +2 pts).
Sources: Simon Rosenberg, NDN.org, Bureau of Labor
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Under the Biden administration, we are seeing the best post Covid economic recovery in the G7.
Sources: Simon Rosenberg, NDN.org
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The GOP is NOT the party of fiscal responsibility.
Democratic Presidents lower deficits, while Republican Presidents create spiraling deficits.
Trump more than any of them.
Sources: Simon Rosenberg, NDN.org
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Since 1989, 48 million jobs have been created.
46 million (96%) of those jobs have been under Democratic Presidents.
Sources: Simon Rosenberg, NDN.org, Bureau of Labor Statistics
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