1. Employment, a priority issue
“In the midst of this pandemic, millions of them are unemployed, unable to pay their rent or repay their loans,”
Joe Biden said on Friday.
In February 2020, unemployment in the United States was at its lowest level in fifty years.
But the Covid-19 has been there.
This puts Donald Trump in the sad place of the only president of the United States since World War II to leave his post with a lower level of employment than when he arrived, assures the CNN channel.
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Joe Biden will take over the presidency of a country in the midst of a crisis on Wednesday, where 19 million inhabitants, employees or self-employed, receive an allowance in one form or another.
The unemployment rate, which peaked at 14.7% in April, has already fallen significantly.
But it is still nearly twice as high as before the epidemic arrived.
Meanwhile, for the first time since April, at least 140,000 jobs were destroyed in December.
The future president wants to fix it
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