One Year Since Inauguration, President Biden Is Making Good on His Commitments to America

Getting Shots in Arms

• Over 513 million vaccine doses have been administered across the country.
• Nearly 75 percent of adults are vaccinated, including 88 percent of seniors as well as 19 million kids.

Safely Re-Opening Our Schools

President Biden’s Action: 

• $122 billion in American Rescue Plan funding was allocated to address the impacts COVID had on K-12 education to ensure schools were able to re-open safely and effectively.
• Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, schools have funds to access COVID tests for teachers, staff, and students, improve ventilation systems, purchase PPE, hire more staff, reduce class sizes for social distancing, and more.

Creating Good-Paying Jobs

• The United States has added over 6 million jobs — the greatest year of job growth in American history.

• The unemployment rate has dropped from 6.3 percent when President Biden took office to 3.9 percent — falling at the fastest rate in 50 years. Economists projected it would take us until the end of 2026 to reach this level.

• Weekly jobless claims are down over 70 percent since President Biden took office — from over 800,000 to 230,000.

• Not only are Americans returning back to work, American workers are also upgrading to better jobs with higher wages.

• Economic growth is the highest it has been in forty years, with the economy growing almost twice as fast as the best year under the last administration.

Supporting Small Businesses

President Bidens’ Action: President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law which:

• Delivered relief to hundreds of thousands of small businesses across the country, including over 100,000 restaurants, to help keep doors open and workers on payroll.
• Distributed more than $50 billion to small businesses, including $7 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program and $28 billion for restaurants hit hard by the pandemic. 

• As a result, business formation is up at a “record pace” with applications for new small businesses up 30% from before the pandemic.

Delivering Tax Cuts for the Middle Class

President Bidens’ Action: The American Rescue Plan delivered significant tax cuts for working and middle class Americans, including:

• Monthly checks of up to $300 per child to roughly 35 million households.

• An expanded earned income tax credit to include more workers and provide nearly three times the previous benefit amount, assisting over 17 million workers.

Creating Good-Paying Jobs

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law:

• Boosts economic growth and creates millions of good-paying jobs, brings supply chains and manufacturing back to the U.S., and makes our country more competitive so we are positioned to win the race for the 21st century.
• Creates a generation of good-paying, union jobs by fixing roads and bridges, replacing dangerous lead pipes to ensure our kids have clean drinking water, modernizing our electric grid, and making the largest investment in electric vehicle infrastructure and manufacturing in American history.
• Delivers the largest-ever federal investments in public transit and clean drinking water, in passenger rail since the creation of Amtrak, in roads and bridges since the construction of the interstate highway system, and the creation of universal Internet access for American households.
• Levels the playing field and creates economic opportunity for working people and communities of color by rectifying economic disparities and decades of disinvestment.

Securing Quality, Affordable Health Care

• President Biden’s American Rescue Plan cut health care premiums by over 40 percentfor millions of Americans who signed up for healthcare on HealthCare.gov, expanding access to affordable, quality health care.
• The American Rescue Plan’s increased health care subsidies are estimated to cover 2.5 million people who otherwise would have been uninsured.
• The Biden-Harris Administration is also implementing bipartisan legislation to protect Americans from the burden of surprise medical bills and help lower health care costs.

Leading on Climate Change

President Biden’s Action: 

• Restored American climate leadership and rejoined the Paris Climate Accords
• Committed to cut U.S. emissions at least in half by 2030 and protect 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030
• Accelerated the deployment of clean energy like offshore wind to create good-paying jobs
• Launched the Justice40 Initiative to ensure that 40 percent of benefits from federal climate investments go to communities disproportionately impacted by environmental harm

Fighting for Racial Justice

President Biden’s Action: The President has ensured the economic recovery has reached communities of color:

• The unemployment rate for Black Americans has fallen from 9.2 percent in January 2021 to 7.1 percent in December 2021.
• The unemployment rate for Hispanic Americans has fallen from 8.6 percent in January 2021 to 4.9 percent in December 2021.
• The unemployment rate for Asian Americans has fallen from 6.6 percent in January 2021 to 3.8 percent in December 2021.

And he has ensured the vaccine rollout has reached communities of color across the country:

• Data shows that vaccine disparities have narrowed and deaths have fallen by approximately 90% in Black, brown, and Indigenous communities.
• Over 2 million Americans in Native communities have been vaccinated, and vaccination rates amongst Native Americans are the highest in the country.

President Biden has also:

• Instructed the Department of Justice to not renew contracts with privately run prisons.
• Directed the Department of Housing and Urban Development to correct the previous Administration’s efforts to undermine fair housing policies.
• Announced a federal purchasing power plan to send $100 billion to small businesses owned by people of color.
• Signed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act.
• Built the most diverse Cabinet in American history, and more.

And, President Biden’s Department of Justice has:

• Banned the use of chokeholds and carotid restraints except where deadly force is necessary at the federal level.
• Withdrawn prosecutorial guidance issued by the previous administration to always charge the harshest sentences.
• Pledged not to renew contracts for privately-operated prisons.

Provided Critical Relief to Immigrant Communities

President Biden’s Action:

• Extended relief to more than 300,000 immigrants by extending Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans, Haitians, Hondurans, and Nicaraguans, and designatedTemporary Protected Status for Venezuelans.
• 2,234 families have been reunited since President Biden took office and more are currently in the process of being reunited with their families after the previous administration separated almost 4,000 children from their families.

• Restarted the Central American Minors Program so children can be reunited with their families without needing to make the dangerous journey to the U.S. border.