"We Will Save Democracy" - Good News Roundup, March 2 - Biden SOTU Edition

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- Daily Kos, March 2, 2022.

Good Day, Gnuville. I am writing this as I await President Biden’s State of the Union speech and it has crossed my mind that with the terrible events unfolding in Ukraine, the President is going to be opening his remarks with a discussion of that topic — which is the right thing to do! I am looking forward to hearing what he says. I think much of the world will also be tuning in for his remarks.

However, these global events will necessarily elbow aside a number of domestic accomplishments due to time constraints (I expect POTUS will instead focus on what has yet to be done, rather than use a lot of time to highlight what has already been achieved). So while I am waiting to hear President Biden’s speech, I am going to start today’s GNR with a review of a 10 of the things Joe and Dems got done for regular Americans in the first year of the Biden presidency:

1. CREATED A RECORD NUMBER OF JOBS

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But wait! There’s more!

-- U.S. added 467,000 jobs in January despite omicron variant surge, Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, February 4, 2022.

The U.S. economy added 467,000 jobs in January even as the omicron variant spiked to record heights, showing that the resilient labor market had enough momentum to power through one of the pandemic’s biggest surges. ✂️ “America is back to work,” President Biden said Friday at the White House. “Our country is taking everything that covid has had to throw at us, and we’ve come back stronger. … America’s job machine is going stronger than ever.” ✂️

In addition to the robust January, the Labor Department also more than doubled its tabulations of jobs gains for November and December. The U.S. economy added 647,000 in November, not the 249,000 the agency had earlier estimated. And the economy added 510,000 jobs in December, the Labor Department said, not the 199,000 initially forecast. That means there were some 700,000 more jobs added at the end of last year than previously estimated, with employers working aggressively to draw in workers across a range of industries. --

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2. REDUCED UNEMPLOYMENT

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3. BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS USHERED IN A GREAT COVID RELIEF BILL.
The history books will tell the story of how Democrats saved our economy from COVID/Trump damage. This was step one.

DEMOCRATS HELD STRONG ON THE COVID RELIEF BILL...

4. BIDEN STRENGTHENED UNIONS.
PROTECT THE 99%? ✅

EXECUTE ORDER DESIGNED TO PROTECT WORKERS...

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