Biden has done more to reduce poverty than any president since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs in the 1960s.

• The previous article on Biden’s Successes Fighting Big Money For The American Dream already listed many of these efforts.

Biden has also improved the lives of workers more than any president since Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs in the 1930s.

Fighting For Far Better Wages

• Biden is the first president to ever visit a picket line to support a strike.
• During the United Auto Workers strike, Biden supported their demand for a 40% wage increases.
• Biden’s Labor Department is trying to give 3.6 million more workers time and a half overtime pay.
• Biden made it harder for companies to avoid paying benefits by classifying workers as independent contractors.
• Biden is forcing joint employers like Burger King, McDonalds, and Amazon to negotiate with unions for better working conditions and benefits for the workers of their franchisees and subcontractors.
• Biden forced companies to recognize unions if the company illegally fights unions in any way.
• He made it harder for companies to fire workers protesting bad working conditions.

Trump wanted auto companies to screw their workers with pay cuts.

• Trump suggested auto companies should move out of Michigan to cheaper places, then move back later to force worker pay cuts, saying “because those guys are going to want their jobs back even if it is less.”

Biden Stopped Republicans When They Tried To:

• cut way more people off food stamps & family welfare
• take food stamps & family welfare away from homeless people and veterans and cut their rental aid
• cut nutritional assistance for mothers
• cut way more money from IRS auditing of rich people

Fighting Price Gouging

Corporate monopolies took advantage of the covid epidemic and supply chain issues to price gouge all of us, resulting in record profits for them and terrible inflation for us. 

• Biden is making it harder for massive corporations to merge and cheat us with price gouging.
• Biden is fighting anticompetitive pricing practices in prescription medicines, health care, food, housing and financial services.

Affordable Housing

Biden has fought to increase funding for affordable housing.

Child Care

• Biden has capped child care costs at 7% of income for Americans getting child care aid under the federal child care block grant.

Quality Education & High Paying Jobs Even Without College

Biden is fighting for every American to have a high-quality education and great job prospects.

• He wants all Americans to have access to high-quality preschool and tutoring to be successful in life.
• He is connecting businesses and high schools so students can get hands-on vocational training for good paying jobs, whether or not they go to college.
• He is working to make college more affordable.
• He wants to five all public school teachers a raise.

 Taxing The Superrich To Help Us

Some of the world’s richest billionaires pay no income taxes at all in some years, while us regular Americans pay an average of 25%.

• Amazon founder Jeff Bezos paid no income taxes in 2007 and 2011.
• Tesla, SpaceX & X (Twitter) owner Elon Musk paid no income taxes in 2018.

Biden wants to increase taxes on the superrich, especially billionaires, to support the needs of regular Americans. 

• He has already forced companies with an income over $1 billion a year to pay a minimum tax of 15%.
• Biden wants a 25% tax on anyone with more than $100 million.
• This would raise $500 billion over 10 years to help pay for benefits like child care and parental leave for regular Americans.
• Biden wants to make the Medicare tax far more fair by raising the cap
• Biden is cracking down on millionaire and billionaire tax cheaters who haven’t filed taxes or who have shell companies, overseas bank accounts, partnership scams, corporate jet scams, etc.
• One expert says superrich tax cheating could come close to $1 trillion each year!

Building Our Economy By Eliminating Student Debt

Canceling student debt helps our economy because it makes it easier for people to:

• buy all kinds of things like cars and houses
• invest in new businesses or start families
• find better jobs

Biden tried to massively boost our economy by eliminating $430 billion in loan debt for tens of millions of students.

• Sadly, our Big Money Supreme Court stopped him.

But Biden kept on fighting.

• Biden canceled $143.6 billion in student loan debt for over 4 million people.
• Many of them were teachers, nurses, social workers, firefighters and other public servants who had trouble getting the debt relief they were entitled to under the law.
• Biden gave 1.3 million people who suffered fraud by their schools, often involving worthless diplomas promised to be lucrative, $22.5 billion in debt relief.

Often, Biden was simply stopping the government from breaking its own promises to students.  Many of the students became disabled or they:

• saw their schools closed.
• signed up for programs promising debt relief for 10 years of government or nonprofit service.
• signed up for programs promising debt relief after paying for 20 or 25 years.

Biden is now trying to cancel student debt for those experiencing financial hardship and those who went to poorly accredited colleges.