6 The legislation also boosts unemployment and nutrition assistance benefits in 2021 provides $40 billion in emergency rental and mortgage assistance and homelessness relief and includes $5 billion in aid and debt relief for Black farmers. Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, individuals earning less than $75 000 have received one-time payments of $1400 and most families qualify for additional tax credits in 2021 of up to $3600 per child, which will temporarily lift 4♱ million children out of poverty and particularly benefit Black and Latinx families. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 increases support for lower-income Americans and the racial and minority ethnic communities hit hardest by the pandemic provides funding for state, local, and tribal governments whose tax revenues have plummeted during the pandemic and offers some, although inadequate, funding for global health programmes over the next 18 months. 3, 4 Soon thereafter, on March 11, 2021, Congress enacted a US$1♹ trillion pandemic relief bill 5 that improved on the two previous COVID-19 stimulus bills in several respects. The first bills introduced, although not yet passed, in US Congress would outlaw Republican-led states' moves to impose voting restrictions redolent of racist Jim Crow-era laws. These executive actions were followed by a forward looking legislative programme. Reopened enrolment in health coverage through the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces ), restoring respect for facts, science, and global cooperation mobilising against COVID-19 rejoining WHO and the Paris Agreement reinstating environmental and workplace protections rescinding some inhumane and racist immigration policies rolling back restrictions on reproductive health care encouraging health coverage expansion and reversing Trump's hostile stance towards gender equity, LGBTQ rights, and racial justice. Soon after assuming office, Biden reversed some of Trump's noxious executive actions ( panel In his inaugural address, Biden became the first US President to utter the words white supremacy and systemic racism.

1īefore assuming office, Biden announced a diverse cabinet nearly half women and more than half people of colour, including Deb Haaland, the cabinet's first Native American, who heads the Department of the Interior, which oversees the Bureau of Indian Affairs. These long-standing policy failures contributed to US life expectancy falling 3♴ years behind that of other G7 nations over the past four decades. US President Joe Biden's initial actions stayed Donald Trump's assault on health and the new administration has begun to redress injustices and flawed social policies that set the stage for Trump's ascendance.

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