Kamala on if People Are Better Off than They Were Four Years Ago: We Came in After the Worst Attack on Democracy

DANIELS: “Are they better off now than they were four years ago?”
Harris: “So when we came into — well, first of all, let me just say it is good to be with the National Association of Black Journalists and I thank you for the work you do and that your members do every day. It is very important that we ensure that this organization and your members always have the resources and the platforms to deliver the voices that must be heard. So I thank you for hosting me today. Four years ago when we came in, we came in during the worst unemployment since the Great Depression. We came in during the worst public health epidemic in centuries. We came in after the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. And a lot of it due in large part to the mismanagement by the former president, as it relates to Covid and obviously January 6th. And we had then a lot of work to do to clean up a mess. As of today, we have created over 16 million new jobs, over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs. We have the lowest black unemployment rate in generations. We have invested in small businesses and they’re to the benefit of many people but including black small businesses, some of the highest rate of creation of new black small businesses in years.”