What They Are Reading in the States: President Biden’s Actions to Protect Worker Pensions, Create Jobs & Honor America’s Heroes
Local news outlets across the country are highlighting President Biden’s actions to strengthen families’ retirement savings, create good-paying jobs through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and honor extraordinary Americans who embody the soul of our nation.
Following his trip to Cleveland, Ohio, newspapers and broadcast outlets across the Buckeye state covered President Biden’s announcement of the American Rescue Plan’s Special Financial Assistance program. This initiative will protect two to three million workers and retirees from facing dramatic cuts to their pensions, and it will reverse previous cuts to their pensions.
Americans nationwide also witnessed President Biden present the Presidential Medal of Freedom – our Nation’s highest civilian honor – to individuals who represent the best of America because of their exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States and world.
And from Long Island to Los Angeles, travelers are reading about how President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is building better airports, investing nearly $1 billion across 85 airports to improve customer experiences, move more goods through the economy to lower prices, and enhance U.S. competitiveness.
See below for a sampling of the local news coverage:
President Biden Highlights Actions to Protect Worker and Retiree Pensions in Cleveland, OH
- Associated Press: Biden in Ohio spotlights effort to rescue union pensions
- Cleveland.com: Joe Biden in Cleveland visit touts pension fix while knocking GOP lawmakers on economy
- Ohio Capital Journal: Biden touts pension rescue, economic agenda in Cleveland
President Biden Awards the Medal of Freedom to American Heroes
- AL.com: Wilma Vaught, UA grad who shattered military glass ceilings, among 3 Medal of Freedom honorees with Alabama ties
- Alabama News Network: Attorney Fred Gray Receives Presidential Medal Of Freedom
- Casper Star Tribune: Former Sen. Al Simpson receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Houston Public Media: Biden awards Medal of Freedom to Spring’s Simone Biles, 16 others at ceremony
- Nashville NPR: Diane Nash says she shares her Presidential Medal of Freedom with everyone who ‘sacrificed so much for the cause’
- Record Searchlight: Biden awards Medal of Freedom to Palo Cedro’s Megan Rapinoe, 16 others
- The Tennessean: Civil rights icons Diane Nash, Fred Gray awarded Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden
- Tucson Sentinel: Biden: Medal of Freedom recipients Giffords, McCain & others are ‘soul of our nation’
- ABC Los Angeles: Long Beach native, longtime social justice lobbyist Sister Simone Campbell receives Medal of Freedom
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Historic Airport Infrastructure Funding
- Atlanta Journal Constitution: Atlanta airport gets $40M from feds for Concourse D expansion
- Dallas Morning News: DFW Airport lands $35 million for new zero-carbon power plant
- Houston Chronicle: Houston’s Bush, Hobby airports to receive $43.6 million for terminal upgrades
- Washington Post: Plan for 14-gate Dulles concourse gets boost from infrastructure law
- Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Airports in Northwest Arkansas, Texarkana to get $18M for terminal improvements
- Los Angeles Times: California airports get $100 million to upgrade terminals and roads, Buttigieg announces
- Orlando Business Journal: Orlando International Airport was one of 85 U.S. airports to get a federal grant this month to help expand capacity and improve access.
- Times West Virginia: NCWV Airport receives $15M windfall from USDOT for new terminal project
- YourValley: $14M coming to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport from infrastructure law
- Spectrum (Austin, TX): Austin airport breaks another record as it’s set to receive $15M for expansion
- WAFF (NBC Huntsville, AL): Huntsville International Airport receiving $10 million grant
- ABC Los Angeles: LAX awarded $50 million grant under Biden infrastructure plan
- Douglas County Sentinel: Atlanta airport’s Concourse D slated for upgrades
- Georgia Public Broadcasting: Federal funding supports Hartsfield-Jackson Airport upgrades
- Times-Republican: Iowa airports receive $27 million in grants from federal government
- WAFB (CBS Baton Rouge, LA): Baton Rouge Metro Airport set to receive $5.2M in infrastructure law funding
- WABI (NBC Bangor, ME): Bangor International Airport getting $14.2 million for expansion, renovations
- KDUZ (Hutchinson, MN): Local Airport Among 4 in MN to Get Federal Funds
- Nebraska Public Media: Lincoln and Omaha Airports Receive Federal Funding for Renovations
- WMUR (ABC Manchester, NH): Manchester-Boston Regional Airport receives $4.1 million in funding to improve terminals
- Long Island Business News: MacArthur Airport to get $14.11M from FAA
- WXPI (NBC Pittsburgh, PA): Pittsburgh airport lands $20M for its new terminal project as part of federal infrastructure law
- KFOX (Fox El Paso, TX): El Paso International Airport awarded $5 million from infrastructure law