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"Biden's doing. Biden has done
more to help the most needy in America in the past four years than Trump's Republicans could imagine."

That is what will always be true.

8 Ways the Biden Administration Is Improving the Lives of Service Workers

The Biden administration is raising pay, building power, and improving living standards for service workers across the economy—including fast-food cooks, call center workers, teachers, home care workers, and federal employees.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/8-ways-the-biden-administration-is-improving-the-lives-of-service-workers/

He couldn't get all he wanted through:

As the unemployment rate nationally and in Michigan fell over the next year, Bhagwatsingh found a job she loved, handling insurance billing for a dental office just three blocks from her new home. The dentist and his wife were kind and supportive. She was good at the job, and soon the dentist made clear they needed her full time.

But with two toddlers too young for school, Bhagwatsingh discovered that she couldn’t afford the day care that would let her work five days a week. The cost — roughly $290 per child per week, or $3,480 per month, according to a billing estimate reviewed by The Washington Post — would be prohibitive even with a higher full-time salary, which would have netted roughly $2,000 per month in take-home pay.

In late 2021, Congress had allowed the beefed-up child tax credit that helped her to expire, and legislation to direct more federal aid to child care died as well. Unable to afford the full-time care she needed, Bhagwatsingh lost her job in the dental office, and now she works two days a week as a clerk at the local courthouse — trying to thread the needle between earning enough to qualify for a state subsidy and still making little enough to keep the subsidy and her food stamps. She struggles to afford groceries, gas and other essentials, and she said she lives in constant fear of becoming homeless again.

“My son turns 14 tomorrow, and my 2-year-old turns 3 on Saturday — I had to tell them Mom’s gifts will come a little later,” Bhagwatsingh, 36, said in February. She said she voted for President Biden in 2020 but doesn’t plan to do so this year. “I tell myself, ‘You don’t have time to fall apart right now. … I try not to actively think about it, but it brings on such an overwhelming sense of despair.’”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/20/biden-child-care-safety-net/