[Doyle McManus] How the pandemic is helping Biden advance his broader economic agenda
Feb 22, 2021
When Joe Biden launched his campaign for the presidency in 2019, his economic proposals were relatively modest updates of the middle-class-oriented agenda he championed as vice president under Barack Obama. “It doesn’t require some fundamental shift,” he said, pushing against the sweeping proposals of rivals like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Then came the pandemic. Today, Biden’s economic message, retooled to address current needs, has real urgency. “We c