The Biden campaign has not released figures on how much their proposals would cost.Biden is addressing reopening as governors and mayors lift restrictions around the country and COVID-19 cases continue mounting in many states. An additional 1.5 million people applied for unemployment benefits last week, a number that's been falling slightly as people return to work, but indicates the ongoing economic turmoil the country faces.
Over the last 12 weeks, more than 44 million first-time claims have been filed, and the Federal Reserve projects the unemployment rate will beBiden has slowly been resuming in-person campaigning, mostly within driving distance of his home in Wilmington, Del. This is Biden's second Philadelphia visit this month. In a speech there last week, hePresident Trump's response to protests outside the White House and around the country over systemic racism and police brutality.
The protests and loosening stay-at-home orders have increasingly propelled Biden outside his basement television studio. At the beginning of June, Biden met withAcross the country, President Trump is also holding an in-person event today to roll out his own plans to address the converging crises facing the country.