There are two kinds of government spending public works and social welfare. Public works spending involves benefits that are available to everyone and that people cannot provide for themselves things like a clean environment, strong national defense, fast highways, convenient airports and good schools. Social welfare spending is targeted by need. It helps disadvantaged people get things that people who are better off are able to provide for themselves, such as food, housing and health care.
Public works spending is much easier to sell politically, as long as people see a genuine need. Former President Trump
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President Biden’s public works program has a strong social welfare component: not just traditional improvements like roads and bridges, but also investments in the work force, including proposals for paid family and medical leave for workers, child care, universal pre-kindergarten and free community college.
Exclusive: Biden to urge Congress to pass anti-gun violence legislation in Wednesday address Courtney Subramanian, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will use his first address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday to pressure lawmakers to confront gun violence, underscoring the administration s focus on fulfilling a campaign pledge that had been mostly overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic.
During his remarks, Biden will reiterate his characterization of gun violence as an epidemic, both in the drumbeat of recent mass shootings and a spike in homicides and gun violence in communities across the country, a White House official told USA TODAY. Biden will again urge Congress to reinstate a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines a measure he helped pass as a senator in 1994.
Biden will urge Congress to pass anti-gun violence legislation in Wednesday speech Courtney Subramanian, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will use his first address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday to pressure lawmakers to confront gun violence, underscoring the administration s focus on fulfilling a campaign pledge that had been mostly overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic.
During his remarks, Biden will reiterate his characterization of gun violence as an epidemic, both in the drumbeat of recent mass shootings and a spike in homicides and gun violence in communities across the country, a White House official told USA TODAY. Biden will again urge Congress to reinstate a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines a measure he helped pass as a senator in 1994.
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