As Prepared for Delivery I’d like to start by telling you about a few of my experiences over the years with President Biden, before he undertook his current role. We first sat down and talked in December of 2008, when he was considering me for chief economist to the VP. He pulled a graph out…
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Fact sheet: Fourth Ministerial Meeting on the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection
On June 10, 2022, President Biden launched the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection with leaders from across the Western Hemisphere to tackle together the challenge of migration and forced displacement. Under this framework, the United States has worked with partner countries to collaboratively reduce irregular migration and advance a safe, humane, and orderly…
FACT SHEET: Ahead of Labor Day, Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Empower Workers— Building on the President’s Historic Support for Workers and Unions
New actions announced this week empower workers to grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom up—a core pillar of Bidenomics President Biden promised to be the most pro-worker and pro-union President in American history, and he has kept that promise. Support for unions is at its highest level in more than half…
Memorandum on Advancing Worker Empowerment, Rights, and High Labor Standards Globally
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT: Advancing Worker Empowerment, Rights, and High Labor Standards Globally By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to enhance United States policy and our Nation’s approach to protecting and promoting…
FACT SHEET: On One-Year Anniversary of President Biden’s Care EO, the Biden-Harris Administration Celebrates New Progress toward Providing Care and Other Supportive Services for Workers
White House Hosts Event and Issues Call to Action to Government Leaders, Employers, and Others to Build on These Efforts During Care Workers Recognition Month and the Month of Action on Care, the Biden-Harris Administration will mark progress toward expanding access to care and other supportive services workers need to train for and stay in…
FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces New Actions to Protect Workers and Communities from Extreme Weather
Despite the severe impacts of extreme weather events, Republicans in Congress continue to deny the very existence of climate change and expose their constituents to health and safety dangers Across the country, tens of millions of Americans are experiencing the effects of extreme weather events. From the record-shattering heat wave across the Midwest and Northeast,…
Stories from the White House Summit on Environmental Justice in Action
This summer, the Biden-Harris Administration brought together over 100 people in person and thousands more virtually to participate in the first White House Summit on Environmental Justice in Action. Community leaders, health experts, faith leaders, academics, federal agency representatives, and senior Administration officials gathered to highlight progress, celebrate local efforts to build healthier communities, and…
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Action to Raise Wage Standards Over Time For More Than One Million Construction Workers
New action combines two pillars of Bidenomics by ensuring that infrastructure investments in America lead to good-paying, family-sustaining jobs. Today, Vice President Kamala Harris is announcing that the Labor Department (DOL) will publish a rule that advances the Administration’s economic vision to build the economy from the bottom up and middle out – not the…
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases Annual Agency Equity Action Plans to Further Advance Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
Since Day One, the Biden-Harris Administration has championed an ambitious equity and racial justice agenda to ensure the full and fair participation of all communities in American life. Despite progress being made, entrenched disparities in our laws and public policies have often denied equal opportunity to historically underserved communities, including rural communities, Black, Latino, Asian American,…
Honoring 60 Years of the Equal Pay Act and Advancing Pay Equity
June 10, 2023 Today is the 60th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, a law that laid the foundation to ensure that workers in this country receive equal pay for equal work, regardless of their sex, for doing substantially similar jobs. It was the first of many laws that protect workers from pay…
