Changes, They Are Aaah-Coming

Direct cash payments.
Extended unemployment.
Rent relief.
Food assistance.
Aid to small businesses.
Keeping essential frontline workers on the job.

Those are the key elements of my American Rescue Plan.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 15, 2021

Biden including a $15 minimum wage in his stimulus plan is huge

Biden moving to abolish the tipped minimum wage and sub-minimum wage for people with disabilities in his stimulus package is even bigger IMO

— @hayesbrown.bsky.social (@HayesBrown) January 15, 2021

The bar and restaurant industry has been gutted this last year. Making it so that when its safe for those people to go back to work that they can make an actual living wage instead of hoping their customers aren’t jerks is exactly what they deserve

— @hayesbrown.bsky.social (@HayesBrown) January 15, 2021

Honestly, I don’t know how anyone can know someone who’s been on waitstaff or bar staff and NOT be in favor of getting rid of the tipped minimum wage

— @hayesbrown.bsky.social (@HayesBrown) January 15, 2021

Also: if you’re a person who tips now and say you will stop once people make the actual minimum wage even without tips? Why? Why would you suddenly think “well, I guess they no longer did the exact same thing that would have gotten them a tip before”?

— @hayesbrown.bsky.social (@HayesBrown) January 15, 2021

On 1st day, Biden will rescind travel ban on several Muslim countries, rejoin Paris climate accord, extend pandemic limits on evictions and student loan payments, and order agencies to figure out how to reunite children separated from families at border. https://t.co/bPj007bw2w

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 16, 2021

A special edition of The Washington Post was on my doorstep this morning. I’m framing this. 💙💙💙 #InaugurationDay pic.twitter.com/oZofqyzyhq

— Brad Bo 🇺🇸 (@BradBeauregardJ) January 20, 2021

I’m here today because of the women who came before me. pic.twitter.com/ctB9qGJqqp

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 20, 2021

https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1351865125884596224

Biden Day One executive actions:

Re-engage WHO
Unified fed COVID response
Extend eviction & foreclosure moratoriums
Extend student loan pause
Rejoin Paris Agreement
Roll back Trump environmental actions
Reverse Trump census order
Reverse Muslim ban
Stop border wall construction

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 20, 2021

Racism Everywhere

Watch how this works: Black women are among the most likely to be performing essential services during the pandemic. Black people are disproportionately dying of coronavirus. Black entrepreneurs are least likely to get a PPP loan to save their businesses. https://t.co/v21tdWedh1

— Maya Harris (@mayaharris_) April 27, 2020

Rana Zoe Mungin, a 30yr old teacher, died today of COVID-19.

She called 911 on March 19 and an EMT told her she was just having a "panic attack."
She went to the ER herself only to be told her lungs "sounded clear"

She actually had one of the worst caseshttps://t.co/4KyVPWT0NK pic.twitter.com/SUYXQl9RU1

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) April 27, 2020

November Is A Crucial Month

Facts: The Obama administration tested 1 million people for H1N1 in the first month after the first US diagnosed case.

The first US #coronavirus case was 50+ days ago. And we haven't event tested 10,000 people yet. https://t.co/LxRH62NIDw

— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 13, 2020

Fact 2: While simultaneously dealing with the biggest financial crisis and recession of our lifetime

— Austan Goolsbee (@Austan_Goolsbee) March 13, 2020

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If the @BarackObama Administration made testing harder how did we manage to test 1 million people within the first month of the H1N1 outbreak? Why did you dismantle the White House office @BarackObama created in NSC post Embola? Why did you cut funding to CDC? Come on! https://t.co/hH7v31DdYj

— Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) March 13, 2020

My Q: You said you don’t take responsibility for slow response to coronavirus but your administration disbanded the White House office on pandemics?

President Trump: “That’s a nasty question...When you say me, I didn't do it. We have a group of people [in the administration].”

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 13, 2020

Longest Streak Of Job Creation

Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history. pic.twitter.com/BmdXrxUAUf

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 17, 2020

Deeper Than Numbers

https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1107721460217450496

President Obama: The Greatest Force For Equality In 50 Years

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Derek Thompson: Thanks, Obama

President Obama has cultivated a reputation for approaching politics with a kind of medical clinicism. But with the full panorama of his presidency coming into view, Obama’s economic legacy is impressive, even historic. First, the centerpiece of Obama’s anti-inequality legacy is the policy that bears his name. Obamacare, a.k.a., the Affordable Care Act, has reduced the uninsured rate from about 16 percent in 2010 to less than 9 percent today, the lowest level in U.S. history. Second, several subtle yet significant tax changes under Obama have made the tax code more progressive. The stimulus bill passed in 2009, a.k.a., the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (or, simply, the Recovery Act), included the most important changes. The law created the Making Work Pay credit, expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, and created new tax credits, like the American Opportunity Tax Credit for college attendees. The most significant change to the tax code since 2010 has been the eleventh-hour agreement to extend the Bush tax cuts for all families except for an increase in the top tax rate for households making more than $450,000 and an increase in the estate tax rate to 40 percent.

Third, the Obama administration has supported initiatives outside of the tax code and health care policy to help the poor and middle class. They have been advocates for higher minimum wages at the national level, which have arguably buoyed the state-by-state effort to raise minimum wages toward $15 in richer areas. They supported extended unemployment benefits while long-term unemployment was perhaps the country’s most insidious economic plague. Unemployment insurance kept more than 11 million people out of poverty in Obama’s first term, according to Census analysis. The president also expanded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps) and Temporary Aid to Needy Families (grants that states can use for a variety of measures including helping the poor). His Department of Education spent more than $60 billion to support states’ education budgets and prevent more layoffs of teachers and administrators. In sum, he grew anti-inequality spending more than any president, as a share of GDP. But at a time when both liberals and conservatives have become exquisitely aware of income inequality and its ills, the seemingly placid, cold, philosopher-in-chief did more to combat that inequity than any president in at least 50 years. For that, two words suffice: “Thanks, Obama.”

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‘How’s Your Agenda?’ Oh Snap!

During those three years, Obama passed health care, financial reform and the stimulus that saved the American economy. How's your agenda? https://t.co/q08DCUyFtO

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) July 29, 2017

https://twitter.com/JBWolfsthal/status/891087301949796354

The First 100 Days Of A True Leader

Unlike Trump, Obama held a press conference on his 100th day as president. Here's what he said that day — Apr 29, 2009. pic.twitter.com/Bba03ab4F9

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) April 29, 2017

The First 50 Days

This week 8 years ago, @BarackObama was concluding his first 50 days delivering on kids health care, equal pay, economic recovery and more.. pic.twitter.com/vTUy4J5mlz

— David Simas (@d_simas) March 6, 2017

He Inherited A Mess But Left Behind A Bounty

8 years to the day that @BarackObama signed the Recovery Act and pulled the US out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. pic.twitter.com/b9w1QNLlDJ

— David Simas (@d_simas) February 17, 2017