Osher 2021 Session Four President Biden's America Rescue Plan

Session Four: President Biden's America Rescue Plan

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Music:  Jennifer Lopez, "This Land is Your Land, " Biden Inauguration,  youtube,1/20/31 Link to site

Essential Questions: (1)Who are Joe Biden's Advisors? (2) What is included in the American Rescue Plan (ARP)?, (3) What are the economics of the ARP? (4) What's missing from the ARP?

Rick's Rap

• Video: "The End of Trickle-Down Economics? Joe Stiglitz on the "Transnational" $1.9Trillion American Rescue Plan," Democracy Now, 3/12/21 Link to Video

• Video: Paul Krugman interview, " Pinching Myself: Nobel Prize-winning economist on scale of Covid relief bill,"All in with Chris Haynes, MSNBC, 3/8/21, Link to video

Exercise "Something that I like about the American Rescue Plan is.."

Exercise:"Something missing that I wish was in  the American Rescue Plan is..."

Closing: "Something I learned today was..."

Readings:

• Nicholas Lehman, "The Most Economically Liberal Legislation in Decades," New Yorker, 3/14/21 Link to Article

• Paul Krugman, "Ending the End of Welfare as We Knew it," NY Times, 3/11/21Link to Article

• David Brooks, "Joe Biden is a Transformational President," NY Times, 3/11/21 Link to Article

• Allen Rappeport, "New Stimulus Package Brings Big Benefits to the Middle Class,"New York Times, 

March 10, 2021 Link to Article

• Robert Reich, "Bidenomics beats Reaganomics and I should know - I saw Clintonomics fail," The Guardian, 3/14/21 Link to Article

•Thomas Kaplan, " What's In the Stimulus Bill? A Guide to where the $1.9 trillion is Going'" New York Times, 3/7/21 Link to Article

• Jason DeParle, "In the Stimulus Bill, a Policy Revolution in Aid for Children," New York Times, 3/7/21Link to article

• Paul Krugman, "Four Rules That Should Guide Bidenomics," NY Times, 1/14/21 Link to article

• Heather Cox Richardson,  "March 6, 2021," Letters from an American, 2021 Heather Cox Richardson Link to article

• Sarah Gamard, "What Delaware Gets Out of $1.9 Trillion Stimulus,"  USA News Today, 3/12/21Link to Article

Resources

•   Yaryna Serkez, "These Charts Show That We Did Not Suffer Equally," NY Times, 3/11/21 Link to Site

• Video: "American Rescue Plan," White  House, 2/10/21Link to Video

• "The Biden Plan to Build a Modern, Sustainable Infrastructure and an Equitable Clean Energy Future," Biden/Harris, Link to site

• Noam Schreiber, "The Biden Team Wants to Transform the Economy, Really." New York Times, 2/11/21Link to Article

•  Jake Johnson, "A Huge, Huge Deal:Biden Issues Public Statement of Support for Alabama Amazon Workers Fighting for Union," Common Dreams, 3/1/21   Link to article

• Jon Schwarz, "Forget the $15 an Hour - the Minimum Wage Should Be $24," The Intercept, 3/5/21Link to Article