Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping $700 billion plan Thursday to help the battered US economy recover from the coronavirus crisis, a direct challenge to Donald
The Democratic challenger's manufacturing and innovation plan aims to bring back jobs lost during the pandemic and create more than five million new jobs by investing in domestic production and research, shrinking foreign supply chains, and promoting new tax rules and union access that empower American workers.
"US manufacturing was the arsenal of democracy in World War II, and must be part of the arsenal of American prosperity today, helping fuel an economic recovery for working families." Biden's plan relies on what the campaign described as the"full power of the federal government to bolster American industrial and technological strength."
Biden's team savaged Trump for denying science, underfunding R&D, implementing a"trickle-down economics" strategy that rewards corporate executives but not working families, and introducing policies that encouraged more manufacturing to move abroad.
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