Fact-checking 7 statistical claims from Biden’s (quite factual) economic speech
President Joe Biden recited a flurry of figures in a Friday speech in which he urged Congress to pass the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package he calls the American Rescue Plan.
We fact-checked many of the statistical claims Biden made in the speech and found Biden was highly factual, though there are some nuances worth noting. Here’s an assessment of seven of the claims we looked into:
Job losses in education
Biden noted that his plan includes funding for local governments to keep critical public employees on the job; his predecessor Donald Trump and other Republicans resisted this kind of direct aid to state and local governments. Biden said: “Over the last year, more than 600,000 educators have lost their jobs in the cities and towns.”
Avs open series against San Jose by Andy Vernier / ColoradoAvalanche.com
Following a four-game road trip in Southern California, the Colorado Avalanche comes home to host the San Jose Sharks for a two-game set at Ball Arena beginning on Tuesday.
The Avs fell 3-1 to the Anaheim Ducks in the final game of the seven-day trip on Sunday, finishing 2-2-0 during the stretch. Mikko Rantanen notched the lone goal for Colorado extending his goal streak to five games while Nathan MacKinnon picked up his sixth assist on the year. Andre Burakovsky returned to the lineup after missing three-straight contests due to an upper-body injury, logging 13:16 of ice time in the matchup.
Billionaires including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder Elon Musk have seen their wealth soar during the COVID-19 pandemic while the world’s poor face years of hardship, charity Oxfam
January 26, 2021
Jonathan Skolnik
AMHERST, Mass. – Jonathan Skolnik, associate professor of German, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been awarded a research fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). In Spring 2021, Skolnik will be in residence as the William J. Lowenberg Memorial Fellow at the USHMM’s Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.
The Lowenberg fellowship supports research on America, the Holocaust, and the Jews. Skolnik will conduct research for a book on juxtapositions of anti-fascism, anti-racism, and Holocaust memory in American visual culture. His work will examine the ways that cinema has structured the memory of the Holocaust in the U.S. and beyond, pairing representations of Nazi persecution with critical reflections on racism in American society.
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