to college. and in the meantime, if your parents need help, being able to take
care of them, and hope to put aside enough money so that your children will
not have to take care of you.
that's the american dream. that's what this country was built on. and
that's what we'redetermined8 to restore.
in order to do that, it's time to have a fair tax structure, one that
values paychecks as much as unearned income and inherited wealth, to take some
of the burden off of the middle class. it's time to close tax loopholes so we
can reduce the deficit9, and invest in rebuilding america - our bridges, our
ports, our highways, rails, providing good jobs.
with corporate10 profits at near record highs, we should encourage
corporations to invest more in research and development and the salaries of
their employees. it's time for us to invest in educational opportunity to
guarantee that we have the most highly skilledworkforce11 in the world, for 6
out of every 10 jobs in the near term is going to require some education
beyond high school. folks, it's long past due to increase the minimum wage
that will lift millions of hardworking families out of poverty target poverty
and in the process produce a ripple12 effect that boosts wages for the middle
class and spurs economic growth for the united states of america. economists13
acknowledge that if we do these and other things, wages will go up and we'll
increase the gross domestic product of the united states.
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ladies and gentlemen, this is joe biden, i'm filling in for president
obama, while he addresses the nato summit in wales.
when the president and i took office in january of , this nation was in
the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the great depression. our
economy had plummeted1 at a rate of 8% in a single quarter-part of the fastest
economic decline any time in the last half century. millions of families were
falling underwater on their homes and threatened with foreclosure. the iconic
american automobile2 industry was under siege.
but yesterday's jobs report was another reminder3 of how far we've come.
we've had 54 straight months of job creation. and that's the longest streak4
of uninterrupted job growth in the united states' history.
we've gone from losing 9 million jobs during the financial crisis to
creating 10 million jobs. we've reduced the unemployment rate from 10% in
october of to 6.1% today. and for the first time since the 1990s, american
manufacturing is steadily5 adding jobs-over 700,000 since . and surveys of
both american and foreign business leaders confirm that america once again is
viewed as the best place in the world to build and invest.