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Description: President Joe Biden discusses the April jobs report and what his American Jobs Plan will do for the economy.

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President Joe Biden discusses the April jobs report and what his American Jobs Plan will do for the economy.

<p>All told our economy has added more than 1,500,000 new jobs since I took office. That's the most number of jobs created in the first three months of any presidency in our history. Just for perspective, in these three months before I got here, The economy added about 60,000 jobs a month. Not half a million in the three months since I've been here. The economy is at it 500,000 jobs per month. This is progress. And it's a testament to our new strategy of a growing this economy. From the bottom up in the middle out, it's a clear testament to why it's so needed. Some critics said that we didn't need the american, the american rescue plan, that this economy would just heal itself. Today's report just underscores in my view how vital the actions we're taking our checks to people who are hurting support for small businesses, for childcare and school reopening support, help, families, put food on the table. Our efforts are starting to work, but the climb is steep and we still have a long way to go. Today's report also put some some truth to some loose talk that we've been hearing about the economy lately. First that we should stop helping workers and families out for fear of overheating the economy. This report reinforces the real truth for years. Working people of middle class people, the people who built this country have been left out in the cold, struggling just to keep their heads above water. Well, those are the top have done very well. We're still digging out of an economic collapse. It cost us 22 million jobs. We say that again, It cost us 22 million jobs. When we came in, we inherited a year of profound economic crisis and mismanagement on the virus. And we proposed and what we propose is is going to work. We're gonna get to 70%. But anyway, but look, it's also going to take focus commitment and time to get the economy moving again. As we wanted to move. We've got work to do and the to state the obvious we have work to do. But look, let's keep our eye on the ball. That's why the american rescue plan is so important. I said, we build it as a year long effort to rescue our country. It's already working. eight weeks later we passed, it was after his past, but parts of the bill are still getting underway. Here's one example I know you all know this, but it's worth repeating. State and local governments have to balance their budgets. As a consequence of this pandemic revenues are way down in cities and states, state and local governments had to have had to lay off 1.6 million employees. That's an awful lot of firefighters, police officers, sanitation workers, essential workers. But later this month, we're going to be distributing the first tranche of the state and local assistance from the american rescue plan. We won't get all 1.6 million of those jobs back in one month, but you're going to start seeing those jobs and state local workers coming back starting this month. We will also deliver assistance to tens of thousands. And I notice every republicans in our home state talking about this being a good idea, tens of thousands of restaurants and bars across the country. And by the way, the majority of the jobs that have come back have been in the entertainment and the and and and those industries and the uh, and so, you know, we're gonna help schools and Children and child centers across the country as well accelerate reopening and that's underway. So look, this is gonna is gonna continue to improve. Today's report makes clear, thank goodness we passed the american rescue plan. Help us here and more help is on the way and more help is needed. Second today's report is rebuttal the loose talk that americans just don't want to work. I know some employers are having trouble filling jobs, but what this report shows is that there's a much bigger problem notwithstanding. In the commentary you might have heard this morning, It is that our economy still has eight million fewer jobs. Then when this pandemic started, the data shows that more, more workers, more workers are looking for jobs and many can't find them. While jobs are coming back, there's still millions of people out there looking for work and the idea that they don't want to work, most middle class, working class people that I know, I think the way my dad did, he used to say it, I know I'm repeating myself, but I'm going to continue to because I think it's critical. A job is a lot more than a paycheck. He'd say Joey. It's about your respect, your dignity, your place in the community, more than a paycheck is people's pride. It's about being able to look your child in the eye and say, honey, it's going to be okay. I've never forgotten that. I've never gotten those folks I grew up with. I think about them every day as president. They didn't have a lot of money, but they busted their necks their whole lives to take care of their families and all I ever wanted was a shot. A fair shot of making it. Last month. There were 266,000 more Americans with dignity. That comes for the job. And there are millions, millions of americans out there who through no fault of their own have been knocked flat on their back this past year. The virus stole their jobs and I'm determined to give them a fighting chance. That's why I've been so focused on vaccinating the nation and getting our economy running again. That's why we fought so hard to pass the american rescue plan. And again, the american rescue plan was for the whole year. It plays out over a year and it's working. But we can't let up this jobs report makes that clear. We've got too much work to do. And american rescue plan is just that a rescue plan is to get us back to where we were. But that's not nearly enough. We have to build back better. That's why we need the american jobs plan. I propose to put us in a position where we can build back better To reclaim our position as the leading and most innovative nation in the world and win the future the 21st century. We need to rebuild the nation's roads and highways and bridges and ports and airports. We've got water systems all over the country that need repair. There are over 400,000 schools and daycare centers with lead pipes That where the water goes through 10 million homes. I saw water for project uh system Yesterday in New Orleans that was over 80 years old. It's in need of major, major overhaul. And by the way, if they don't get it fixed, new Orleans itself is in real trouble. They need reliable, affordable, high speed Internet. Throughout this country. Our businesses need to compete worldwide. Our rural communities need to be able to compete and make their own judgments as to when to buy and sell our kids needed to succeed in school. As my wife Jill says, any nations out educates, this is going to out compete us. We also need to up our game in our education system. 12 years of education in the 2020 21 is not enough to compete in the 21st century. In my view, we need 16 years of public education guaranteed this country From preschool for three and 4 year olds at the early end to two years of community college after high school, we have some serious decisions to make and fundamental choices and think about it. How much better off is the country? If we have tens of thousands of graduating seniors from high school and beyond going to get two Years of Community College? Doesn't that increase our capacity significantly? This month's job numbers show we're on the right track. We still have a long way to go. As I said, my laser focus is on growing the nation's economy and creating jobs. My laser focuses on vaccinating our nation and we're making continued progress. My laser focuses on one more thing. Making sure working people in this country, hard working people are no longer left out in the cold. They're going to get to share the benefits of a rising economy. It's been a long time since that happened. I've called my plan the blue collar blueprint for America. That's exactly what it is. So let's not let up. We're still digging their way out of a very deep hole we're putting. No one should underestimate how tough this battle is. We still have a job do here in Washington. The american people are counting on us. So let's get it done. Let's build an economy that delivers dignity, gives everybody a chance. I'm confident we can do this because there's nothing beyond the capacity of the american people. Thank you. God bless you and may God protect our troops. Thank you Mr President. Do you believe enhanced unemployment benefits had any effect on diminishing a return to work in some categories? No, nothing measurable. Thank you. Mr. President do you? It's easy master. And you walked out to the podium with your mask on. Why do you choose to wear a mask? So often when you're of accident and you're around other people? Because I'm worried about you now. It's a joke to joe. Why why am I wearing the mask? Because when we're inside is still good policy to wear the mask. That's why when I'm outside. And the problem is lots of times I walk away from this podium, you noticed I forget to put my mask back on because I'm used to not wearing it outside. Mr President, Are you at all concerned about Vladimir Putin amassing troops on the border of Ukraine? Do you see that as a message to you? And could it impact your desire to have a one on one meeting with him? Does not impact him A desire of the one on one meeting. And he noticed he had more troops before. He's withdrawing troops are still troops of mass, but significantly less than he had a month ago. Mr President, do you believe that the Iranians are serious about negotiation in Vienna? Yes, but how serious And what they're prepared to do is a different story. But we're still talking. Sir, you had a question. I cut you, do you have any updates on whether you'll be able to meet Vladimir Putin in june? Is that gonna have confidence be able to do? We don't have any uh specific time replaced that's being worked on, Has he agreed, sir? Right. Thank you, sir. Yeah. Choose life. What? Ah.</p>

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