‘We still have a long way to go,’ says Joe Biden after disappointing jobs numbers

Joe Biden did not appear downhearted by a disappointing jobs report: he said it would not be a sprint, but ‘a marathon’ after April’s report severely missed economists’ expectations. The president noted his $1.9tn coronavirus relief package, which he signed into law in March, was meant to aid the US economy over the course of a year and insisted the country is ‘moving in the right direction’ as businesses begin to reopen

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