{"id":55731,"date":"2021-11-20T01:03:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T19:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/build-back-better-may-not-have-passed-a-decade-ago\/"},"modified":"2021-11-20T01:03:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T19:33:14","slug":"build-back-better-may-not-have-passed-a-decade-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/build-back-better-may-not-have-passed-a-decade-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Build Back Better May Not Have Passed a Decade Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cLook at the millennials in my district, who can\u2019t afford a house, who can\u2019t afford to pay back their student loans, who can\u2019t even dream about living the lives their parents lived,\u201d Representative John B. Larson of Connecticut, a veteran Democrat, said. \u201cYou can\u2019t tell people they are doing better than they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

And as society has changed, so has the Democratic Party. Representative Jamaal Bowman\u2019s New York district stretches from the wealthy suburb of Scarsdale to the tougher streets of Mount Vernon, and for 32 years, was represented by a white establishment Democrat, Eliot L. Engel.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bowman, a progressive Black man who defeated Mr. Engel in a Democratic primary last year, said his constituents acknowledge wealth inequality and income stagnation in their midst \u2014 in part, because he won\u2019t let them deny it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they tried to look the other way, they really can\u2019t,\u201d Mr. Bowman said. \u201cAnd they know that whether it\u2019s through government or private industry, or both, we have to do more to close the inequality gap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans are still betting that voters will fixate on the spectacle of a Democratic president struggling for months to unite his divided majority around his agenda. They argue that the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, rising inflation and unsteady economic growth have only added to a sense that the country is adrift, and say they are not about to allow Democrats to use the social safety net bill to distract from those concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a supply chain crisis that continues to rage on, exacerbating the skyrocketing prices and scarcity of goods our citizens are experiencing,\u201d the House Republican leader, Mr. McCarthy, said Thursday. \u201cAnd ask yourself this: What has this chamber done, especially this week, to alleviate any of these pressures on our fellow citizens, the people we were sent here to represent? The answer is absolutely nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Biden\u2019s \u200b\u200bSocial Policy Bill\u00a0at a Glance<\/h2>\n\n<\/section>\n

Passage of the bill, Republicans say, will only stoke inflation, force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, and create \u201cstagflation,\u201d the combination of stagnant economic growth and rising prices that doomed Jimmy Carter\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cLook at the millennials in my district, who can\u2019t afford a house, who can\u2019t afford to pay back their student loans, who can\u2019t even dream about living the lives their parents lived,\u201d Representative John B. Larson of Connecticut, a veteran Democrat, said. \u201cYou can\u2019t tell people they are doing better than they are.\u201d And as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":55732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3266],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Build-Back-Better-May-Not-Have-Passed-a-Decade-Ago.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}