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Covid-19: Joe Biden predicts more than 600,000 dead in an economically "suffering" America

2021-01-23T11:37:34.612Z


The new president on Friday painted a grim picture of the "worsening" economic and health crisis in the United States.


Joe Biden has just taken control of a suffering America.

The new president on Friday painted a grim picture of the "worsening" economic and health crisis in the United States, as he signed the first executive orders promising immediate help to millions of hungry jobless Americans.

Describing an America "that suffers" and urging Democrats and Republicans to "act quickly", the newly elected president estimated that the toll of the Covid-19 epidemic in the United States, of more than 400,000 dead currently, "could reach well over 600,000 ”deaths.

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“Families are hungry.

People are being kicked out.

Job losses are climbing again.

We must act now, ”insisted the president before signing two decrees aimed at increasing food aid in the country and strengthening social rights.

"One in seven households does not have enough to eat"

Two days after his inauguration, the new American president thus continues to list his priorities with presidential decisions.

In three days, he will have taken nearly thirty.

Joe Biden, who wants to go fast, also saw a key member of his government being confirmed by the Senate on Friday: Defense Minister Lloyd Austin.

Votes on the nominations of Foreign Minister Antony Blinken and Economy and Finance Minister Janet Yellen are expected to follow.

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"One in seven households in America, one in seven, and more than one in five in black and Latin households, report that they do not have enough to eat," exclaimed Joe Biden.

“That includes almost 30 million adults and 12 million children, and they have nothing to do with it.

It is scandalous, ”he added.

In the United States, where schools provided daily meals to students from poor families, 12 million children are no longer fed in schools.

Some 600,000 people have lost their teaching jobs, also said Biden, who will ask the agriculture ministry to expand and relax its program of assistance to people and families with low or no income (SNAP ), which replaced the Food Stamps program, which allowed low-income families to purchase basic food items from licensed stores.

$ 2,000 to households in need

These emergency initiatives precede "a rescue plan" for the economy that will "tackle the pandemic and provide direct financial assistance to Americans who need it most," the president continued, referring to the plan. aid of 1900 billion dollars.

In particular, the president added, it would provide a total direct payment of $ 2,000 - including the $ 600 already provided recently under the Trump administration - to households most in need.

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Joe Biden, who has a very slim majority in Congress, insisted that the plan "received bipartisan support from a majority of mayors and governors."

"Even Wall Street firms have emphasized its importance," he said, citing an economic study by Moody's which said the bailout would create 7.5 million jobs this year.

“I don't believe it's Democrats or Republicans who are hungry and losing their jobs.

I believe that they are Americans […] and we have the tools to stop this, ”he insisted.

The new White House host recalled that 16 million Americans were living on unemployment benefits and that 14 million of them were already behind on their rents, risking eviction.

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