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Biden’s State of the Union Speech: Only One Thing Missing

‘Just one more thing’ …

Katharine Valentino
4 min readMar 9, 2024
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UPDATE: The subject of this article—the one thing missing in Biden’s speech—is currently the subject of much discussion on various media. Speaking personally and perhaps selfishly, darn! I should have published the article yesterday. Well, here it is, anyway.

President Biden’s State of the Union Speech yesterday was truthful, honest, vigorous, and sincere. Here are my favorite moments:

About the economy, jobs, wages, and inflation:

15 million new jobs in just three years… Unemployment at 50-year lows.… A record 16 million Americans are starting small businesses…. [H]istoric job growth and small business growth for Black, Hispanic, and Asian-Americans.… 800,000 new manufacturing jobs.… The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years.… Wages keep going up and inflation keeps coming down…. Inflation has dropped from 9% to 3% — the lowest in the world!

More about jobs:

“[P]rivate companies are now investing billions of dollars to build new chip factories here in America! Creating tens of thousands of jobs many of them paying over $100,000 a year and don’t require a college degree. In fact my policies have attracted $650 Billion of private sector investments in clean energy…

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Katharine Valentino
Katharine Valentino

Written by Katharine Valentino

Still trying for the words to help us do & feel good things. Owner of Reviews for Medium Featured Books. I write life stories & about politics / social issues.

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