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Build Back Better: Biden Plan to Advance Racial Equity, Address Wealth Gap

April Ryan
July 28, 2020

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Vice President Biden shared his Build Back Better plan today with media. The plan is meant to advance racial equity across the American economy, addressing the wealth gap.

America has never lived up to our founding promise — and we can’t rest until we finally do. My new plan will advance racial equity across the American economy and bring us closer to reaching our highest ideals: https://t.co/27Y38u5rCe pic.twitter.com/pQGZ78PXwC
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 28, 2020

A recent report says it will take almost 250 years to close the wealth gap between white & Black Americans, stretched further by COVID. The pandemic has shone a bright light on racial disparities in health and health care as well as higher unemployment rates and shuttered businesses impacting Black America.

Click ▶️ to listen to AURN Washington Bureau Chief April Ryan’s White House Report:

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event at the William “Hicks” Anderson Community Center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 28, 2020.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

April Ryan has a unique vantage point as the only Black female reporter covering urban issues from the White House, a position she has held with AURN since the Clinton era. Her position as a White House Correspondent has afforded her heightened insight into the racial sensitivities, issues, and attendant political struggles of our nation. April has written three books; The Presidency in Black & White: My Close-Up View of Three Presidents and Race in America, At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White, and Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House. Twitter: @aprildryan