Harris has offered a string of new economic proposals. Here's a closer look at what's in them
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris has offered a string of new economic proposals. Here's a closer look at what's in them

Hindustan Times  

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is out with a string of new economic proposals focused on food prices, taxes, housing and medical costs that she says will empower the middle class. Here's a closer look at what's in them {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The plans constitute the first major policy proposals that Harris has released in the nearly four weeks since President Joe Biden bowed out of the race and endorsed his vice president. She also wants a $40 billion innovation fund — doubling a similar pot of money created by the Biden administration — for businesses building affordable rental housing units. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The vice president also has endorsed repurposing some federal land to make room for new affordable housing, an idea that Biden endorsed while still running for president and that Trump has also spoken about favorably.

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Experts: Harris proposal could ease housing crisis — while Trump plan would drive up inflation
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Experts: Harris proposal could ease housing crisis — while Trump plan would drive up inflation

Salon  

The next president of the United States will inherit, among other pressing issues, a housing crisis that has seen average rents increase by 19% since 2019, leaving tens of millions of Americans paying more than 30% of their income towards rent and many others homeless. Harris' proposed effort to add 3 million new housing units, part of "A New Way …

Opinion: If Harris falls short, blame Democrats and the media on this issue
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: If Harris falls short, blame Democrats and the media on this issue

LA Times  

The Harris-Biden economy is “firing on all cylinders” despite the pandemic and policy mess Trump handed them. Here’s one that’s certain to be cited if Kamala Harris loses: the perception among many voters, even those with no love for Donald Trump, that he’d be a better manager of the economy. And yet, just over a week earlier, the Journal reported …

Harris Shifts Strategy to Highlight Economic Agenda in Final Push
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Harris Shifts Strategy to Highlight Economic Agenda in Final Push

Firstpost  

The Harris campaign has shifted its focus to economic issues in the final week of the campaign, as they attempt to counter Trump's economic advantage. The campaign has highlighted measures such as combatting price gouging, expanding the child tax credit, and providing tax exemptions for tipped income.

Here's where Harris and Trump stand on three big health care issues
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Here's where Harris and Trump stand on three big health care issues

NPR  

Here's where Harris and Trump stand on three big health care issues toggle caption Charles Rex Arbogast/AP As the 2024 election heads into its final weeks, the direction of policies affecting the health of millions of Americans is at stake. “But I think that because the negotiated prices won't go into effect until 2026, no one will miss them.” Harris …

Where Trump and Harris stand on 5 key issues as the 2024 race heats up
2 months, 1 week ago

Where Trump and Harris stand on 5 key issues as the 2024 race heats up

Daily Mail  

In what is expected to be one of the closest elections in history, the candidates could not be further apart when it comes to the key issues. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have laid out two drastically different visions for America during the unprecedented 2024 campaign for the White House. But their grand plans are a crucial indicator of what …

Harris proposes Medicare cover home care costs to help the 'sandwich generation'
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Harris proposes Medicare cover home care costs to help the 'sandwich generation'

NPR  

Harris proposes Medicare cover home care costs to help the 'sandwich generation' toggle caption Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images Vice President Harris on Tuesday laid out a proposal to expand Medicare coverage to help cover the costs of home health care aides for seniors. Harris announced the plan — squarely aimed at “sandwich generation” women who take care of aging …

Trump's plan would add $4 trillion more to U.S. debt compared to Harris', analysis says
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump's plan would add $4 trillion more to U.S. debt compared to Harris', analysis says

NPR  

Trump's plan would add $4 trillion more to U.S. debt compared to Harris', analysis says toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images With less than a month left until Election Day, both the Harris and Trump campaigns have presented their economic visions to the American people — including proposed tax cuts, border security spending and affordable housing policies. Trump's estimated …

Insiders look for signals that Kamala Harris would keep up one of Biden’s biggest fights
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Insiders look for signals that Kamala Harris would keep up one of Biden’s biggest fights

Politico  

What Harris chooses to do if she wins is “very important,” said Josh Tzuker, a former antitrust official at the Department of Justice, who joined the consulting firm FGS Global earlier this year. Those include former Biden National Economic Council director Brian Deese, who is advising Harris on economic policy; and Bharat Ramamurti, formerly Deese’s deputy at the NEC and …

Kamala Harris will struggle to beat Trump on the economy when she lacks a big idea
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Kamala Harris will struggle to beat Trump on the economy when she lacks a big idea

The Telegraph  

The big idea was that she would boost domestic manufacturing as a bulwark against cheap Chinese imports, with a focus on “the sectors that will define the next century”, including biomanufacturing, semiconductors and aerospace engineering. The hope from Ms Harris’s coterie of economic advisers, many of whom were inherited from Mr Biden’s campaign, is that a focus on factory production …

Harris answers critics with detailed economic plan and sharp criticisms of Trump
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Harris answers critics with detailed economic plan and sharp criticisms of Trump

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Harris said Trump, a wealthy former real estate …

Rejecting Trump's 'failed trickle-down' policies, 400+ economic experts endorse Harris
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Rejecting Trump's 'failed trickle-down' policies, 400+ economic experts endorse Harris

Raw Story  

Several progressive economists were among more than 400 policy experts who signed onto an endorsement of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, arguing that the Democratic presidential candidate's proposals for an "opportunity economy" would improve the financial well-being of families across the country. Stony Brook University professor Stephanie Kelton, a leading proponent of modern monetary theory; Center for Economic …

Harris to release new economic proposals this week on US wealth creation, say sources
3 months ago

Harris to release new economic proposals this week on US wealth creation, say sources

The Telegraph  

Kamala Harris plans to roll out a new set of economic policies this week that aim to help Americans build wealth and set economic incentives for businesses to aid that goal, three sources with knowledge of the matter said. The new policies, which have not been previously reported and could be announced in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, come as undecided voters …

The one Harris comment Trump and his allies have spent $38 million for voters to see
3 months, 1 week ago

The one Harris comment Trump and his allies have spent $38 million for voters to see

CNN  

CNN — On an August afternoon last year in Washington, Kamala Harris appeared at a retail village to promote the Biden administration’s economic record. A third ad from the Trump campaign, launched last week and already backed by more than $3 million, opens with the clip of Harris saying that “Bidenomics is working,” before a narrator cuts in with “It’s …

How Harris and Trump plan to address the high cost of housing
3 months, 3 weeks ago

How Harris and Trump plan to address the high cost of housing

NPR  

How Harris and Trump plan to address the high cost of housing The high cost of housing is a big issue for voters. LEILA FADEL, HOST: And both presidential candidates have plans to address that high cost of housing, but there are few details and lots of questions. Harris says she would build 3 million new housing units in four …

Column: Harris is right about housing assistance and price gouging. Here’s what you should know
4 months ago

Column: Harris is right about housing assistance and price gouging. Here’s what you should know

LA Times  

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris greets attendees after speaking about the administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs during an event at a Maryland community college. Harris’ professed desire to lower food prices led to a spurt of news articles and columns asserting that she was proposing “price controls.” It’s hard to know where that idea came from; …

Trump taps two white male senators to rip into Kamala Harris outside Democratic convention
4 months ago

Trump taps two white male senators to rip into Kamala Harris outside Democratic convention

Raw Story  

CHICAGO — The Donald Trump campaign kicked off its presence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago with a press conference from two prominent Republican senators ripping the soon-to-be-official Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on everything from minimal media presence to a lack of business expertise. Surrounded by poster boards showing “price increases since Kamala Harris took office,” Johnson said …

Harris isn’t pushing Medicare for All anymore. Progressives say that’s OK.
4 months ago

Harris isn’t pushing Medicare for All anymore. Progressives say that’s OK.

Politico  

“When you juxtapose the possibility of disappointment with the possibility of a loss of democracy, I think that I would choose a health policy that doesn’t exactly fit my desires every time,” said Gillian Mason, interim executive director at Healthcare-NOW, an advocacy group that supports a single-payer system. Still, Mason said sticking to centrist Democratic health policy “would be a …

Harris offers proposals to cut food and housing costs, trying to blunt Trump's economic attacks
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris offers proposals to cut food and housing costs, trying to blunt Trump's economic attacks

New Indian Express  

Harris isn't looking for any radical departures from President Joe Biden, who stepped down from the race last month and endorsed her. Some of Trump’s economic advisers offered further rebuttals to Harris' plans before she spoke on Friday, with Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the former president's campaign, calling them representative of a “socialist and authoritarian model.” Kevin Hassett, a …

Harris takes a populist tone on the economy. Will it help with young voters?
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris takes a populist tone on the economy. Will it help with young voters?

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Indeed, when The Independent interviewed Black voters in Milwaukee during the Republican National Convention …

FACT FOCUS: A look at Harris’ economic agenda
4 months, 1 week ago

FACT FOCUS: A look at Harris’ economic agenda

Associated Press  

Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled her economic agenda in a speech Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina. Lowering the cost of insulin and prescription drugs HARRIS: “I’ll lower the cost of insulin and prescription drugs for everyone.” THE FACTS: Harris made this promise while referencing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which allows Medicare to negotiate medication costs directly with drug …

Kamala Harris promises to lower costs as she slams Trump for having ‘no serious plans’ to help middle class
4 months, 1 week ago

Kamala Harris promises to lower costs as she slams Trump for having ‘no serious plans’ to help middle class

The Independent  

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Harris has offered a string of new economic proposals. Here's a closer look at what's in them
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris has offered a string of new economic proposals. Here's a closer look at what's in them

Hindustan Times  

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is out with a string of new economic proposals focused on food prices, taxes, housing and medical costs that she says will empower the middle class. She also wants a $40 billion innovation fund — doubling a similar pot of money created by the Biden administration — for businesses building affordable rental housing units. …

Harris has offered a string of new economic proposals. Here’s a closer look at what’s in them
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris has offered a string of new economic proposals. Here’s a closer look at what’s in them

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is out with a string of new economic proposals focused on food prices, taxes, housing and medical costs that she says will empower the middle class. Housing Harris is calling for the construction of 3 million new housing units over four years, which she says will ease a “serious housing shortage in America.” She …

Kamala Harris’ Big Economic Speech Breaks With Biden And Continues His Legacy
4 months, 1 week ago

Kamala Harris’ Big Economic Speech Breaks With Biden And Continues His Legacy

Huff Post  

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, arrive to speak about the administration's efforts to lower costs during an event at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Maryland, on Thursday. Susan Walsh via Associated Press Vice President Kamala Harris will propose a ban on price gouging by food companies, along with incentives to build new …

Harris to unveil plan for U.S. economy in major policy rollout
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris to unveil plan for U.S. economy in major policy rollout

Raw Story  

Kamala Harris is expected to take on companies unfairly jacking up prices as she sets out her economic agenda Friday in her first major policy announcement as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. Harris's first economic proposal -- to not tax tips -- perplexed some Democrats, who mocked the proposal as a "ploy" for votes after Trump first floated something similar. …

Harris offers proposals to cut food and housing costs, trying to blunt Trump’s economic attacks
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris offers proposals to cut food and housing costs, trying to blunt Trump’s economic attacks

LA Times  

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks about the economy at a campaign event at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, N.C., on Friday. Some of Trump’s economic advisors offered further rebuttals to Harris’ plans before she spoke Friday, with Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the former president’s campaign, calling them representative of a “socialist and authoritarian model.” Kevin Hassett, a former …

Harris to unveil plan for US economy in major policy rollout
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris to unveil plan for US economy in major policy rollout

New Indian Express  

RALEIGH: Kamala Harris is expected to take on companies unfairly jacking up prices as she sets out her economic agenda Friday in her first major policy announcement as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. The vice president, who replaced President Joe Biden atop the ticket last month, has been carried by surging enthusiasm, bolstered by new government figures this week showing …

Kamala Harris rolls out agenda: $6K tax credit for newborns, $25K subsidy for first-time homebuyers
4 months, 1 week ago

Kamala Harris rolls out agenda: $6K tax credit for newborns, $25K subsidy for first-time homebuyers

Salon  

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to unveil her populist economic agenda at a campaign event in North Carolina on Friday. This highly anticipated plan is Harris’ first-ever detailed vision of her economic policies and includes proposals that prioritize “lowering costs for American families,” going beyond President Joe Biden's campaign platform, The Washington Post reported. Harris’ proposal includes eliminating medical …

Harris lays out economic plan
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris lays out economic plan

NPR  

Harris lays out economic plan In her first major policy speech of her compressed campaign, Vice President Harris talked about her economic plans. It's worth pointing out that some Republicans, like the GOP vice presidential nominee, have also called for increasing the child tax credit. The current child tax credit costs something like $100 billion a year. Kevin Hassett, who …

Granderson: How would Harris pay for the policies that voters want?
4 months, 1 week ago

Granderson: How would Harris pay for the policies that voters want?

LA Times  

At some point, Vice President Kamala Harris will have to slow down and answer some tough questions about her policy positions. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign plans to shift its economic message this week from breadth to depth, articulating some of the policies we could expect from a Harris administration. Tim Walz as her running mate but also reiterated Harris’ …

End of the road trip for Harris
4 months, 1 week ago

End of the road trip for Harris

NPR  

End of the road trip for Harris PIEN HUANG, HOST: It was just three weeks ago that Vice President Harris launched her campaign for president. Harris hasn't yet released details on her policy proposals in the campaign, but it's something she's starting to tease this week. NPR White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram joins us from San Francisco, where she's covering …

Biden’s Economic Message Failed With Voters. Can Harris Do Better?
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Biden’s Economic Message Failed With Voters. Can Harris Do Better?

Politico  

But with Harris’ late entry into the presidential race, that vision has been given a sudden bolt of electricity, and her 2021 pitch is a window into her potential economic agenda if she inherits the Oval Office. “I think she will prioritize these issues in a more authentic and enthusiastic way than we’ve seen before,” said Vicki Shabo, a longtime …

Assured of victory, Biden-Harris start focusing on public health and economy
4 years, 1 month ago

Assured of victory, Biden-Harris start focusing on public health and economy

Live Mint  

Confident of their victory in the US presidential election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Senator Kamala Harris have begun working on the task ahead by focusing on two critical areas of public health and economy, both battered by the raging COVID-19 pandemic. “While we're waiting for the final results, I want people to know we are not …

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