Ahead of farewell address, Biden declares nation is ‘stronger, more prosperous, and more secure’
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‘History is in your hands. The power is in your hands. The idea of America lies in your hands,” Biden wrote in a heartfelt letter the day before his farewell address Wednesday night. As he prepares to deliver an Oval Office address for the last time after a single term in the White House and a full half-century of service in the federal government, President Joe Biden declared Tuesday that America now stands “stronger, more prosperous, and more secure” than it was when he entered office amid the tumult of the Covid-19 pandemic four years ago.
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In a letter released by the White House ahead of his farewell address to the nation on Wednesday, Biden described the circumstances under which he was sworn in as president as “a winter of peril and a winter of possibilities.”. “We were in the grip of the worst pandemic in a century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War,” noted Biden, who added that in response, Americans “came together … and we braved through it.”.
Biden wrote that the U.S. now boasts “the strongest economy in the world,” thanks in part to the 16.6 million new jobs created under his leadership. He is the only American president in modern history to see job growth during each month of his term.
The president also noted that American workers’ wages have risen while inflation has fallen from the peaks it hit amid supply-chain pressures and higher energy costs drove prices up around the world. Biden also declared that the “racial wealth gap” has reached what he called the lowest level of the last two decades.
