Another very short list of more promises made, promises kept.
- USMCA trade deal with Mexico and Canada
- Additionally, this trade deal forced Mexico to overhaul its labor laws
- Gave Mexican workers the right to collective bargaining
• De-incentivizes moving jobs from the US to Mexico - New trade deal with Japan, increasing U.S. exports
- New trade deal with China, increasing U.S. exports
- New trade deal with the E.U., increasing U.S. exports
- An increase in steel and aluminum jobs
- Workers achieved their largest nominal year over year wage growth in a decade • 68 percent reported receiving a pay increase in the past year
- In 2017, the real median household income rose to a post-recession high
• Last year, job satisfaction among American workers hit its highest level since 2005
- Paychecks rose by 3.3 percent between 2016 and 2017
• Median household income was $61,372 in 2017
• Hispanic-American Median income surpassed $50,000
• Rising incomes in all socio-economic categories - American manufacturing has significantly increased
714 percent higher than it was under the Obama administration
• 600,000 manufacturing jobs were created in the last two years
• Manufacturing employment is growing at its fastest pace in more than two decades
- 95 percent of US manufacturers are optimistic about the future, the highest ever
- African-American and Hispanic-American poverty rates reached record lows of 21.2 percent and 18.3 percent respectively in 2017
• The lowest levels ever recorded
• Home ownership among Hispanics is at its highest rate in nearly a decade
- Signed student debt forgiveness plan for disabled veterans
- Signed student debt forgiveness plan for people with disabilities
- Signed executive order to fund Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
- Increased HBCU annual budgets for work study programs by 25%
- Created commission on opioid addiction
- Ended Obamacare’s individual mandate penalty
- Working to provide Americans with affordable alternatives to Obamacare
- Expanded short-term, limited duration health insurance plans expected to be approximately 50% cheaper than unsubsidized Obamacare plans
- Developed a new $291 million plan regarding HIV/AIDS in America
- Goal is to have a 90% reduction in ten years
• Provide people with drugs that stabilize the disease • Improve quality of life - Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will enhance childhood cancer research and improvement treatments
- Enacted policies that lowered healthcare premiums
How many promises has Joe Biden kept?