(Really important read) Heather Cox Richardson

[applegrove]

Heather Cox Richardson

Letters From An American

Link:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-27-2021

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"SNIP......

With more than 5.5 million new jobs created in ten months, unemployment claims are the lowest they have been since 1969, prompting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) office to tweet, “Armstrong Walks the Moon!... Wait, sorry! That’s a headline from the last year unemployment claims were this low.” Workers’ pay has jumped as much as 13% in certain industries, and there are openings across the labor market.

The American Rescue Plan started the reorientation of our government to address the needs of ordinary Americans rather than the wealthy who have dominated our policymaking since 1981. It provided more than $5 billion in rental assistance, for example, and expanded the Child Tax Credit, so that by the end of October, $66 billion had gone to more than 36 million households, cutting the child poverty rate in half.

Over the course of the summer, Biden negotiated an extraordinarily complicated infrastructure package, winning a $1.2 trillion bipartisan bill that will repair roads and bridges and provide broadband across the country, and getting the larger, $2.2 trillion Build Back Better bill through the House. Now before the Senate, the bill calls for universal pre-kindergarten, funding for child care and elder care, a shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy, and protection against climate change.

Has the Biden administration accomplished anything? It has created a sea change in our country, rebuilding its strength by orienting the government away from the supply-side economics that led lawmakers to protect the interests of the wealthy, and toward the far more traditional focus on building the economy by supporting regular Americans.

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[mike_c]

1. I've often wondered...

why there are few or no links here to HCR's daily essays. Maybe I've just missed them. I generally read them on her Facebook page. She is a national treasure.

[applegrove]

2. You can get her daily email for free. I post it about once every few months

but you don't get the whole effect unless you read the whole thing and not just a four paragraph out-take. I will edit to add the link to sign up for her emails. Thanks for your input. She is my favorite historian of all time.

[riverbendviewgal]

9. Thank you

I signed up. She is very good.

[catchnrelease]

4. Agreed!

I always look forward to her clear explanations of what's happened, whether past or present. Definitely a treasure.

[burrowowl]

3. K&R!

[SergeStorms]

5. Now, if they'd only.....

assure Americans that their right to vote in free, fair elections is protected from the fascist right-wing pigs who want to install a dictator instead of electing a president.

These economic reforms are long overdue, but if this positive step forward can be reversed forever by a right-wing dictator what good is it?

Election and voter reform must be protected, and damned soon.

[Tommymac]

10. +1 nt

[Joinfortmill]

6. Extraordinary. And are the news outlets touting this? No.

[Duppers]

8. Most important point!

👍

[LittleGirl]

7. I found her months ago. Signed up for her free email. nt