Inaugural Weekly Discussion about MRA Goals (November 12, 2023)

In Weekly Letter for The Movement for the Renewal of America we trace every week the actions taken under the Trump first and second term and under the Biden administration to build a stronger America goal by goal for its workers and families in all 51 states. Week after week, year after year this will build the America of our hopes and our aspirations.

Christopher Payne's new book celebrates factories and manufacturing across America. America under president Trump and president Biden's leadership is becoming the great manufacturing nation it once was, with its economy centered on its workers and its factories, lifting the middle class, and a rising tide lifting all boats.

President Biden's visit to Illinois shows the difference the president made by encouraging companies and workers to come together to rebuild America. The people of town of Rockford and this part of northern Illinois depended on the now idled Belvidere plant for generations. The new UAW settlement calls for investment of $4.8 billion (Goal 5: Bringing Jobs and Factories back to the US) for a parts distribution center and a new electric car factory.

Not even FDR, not even Harry Truman, or John Kennedy. In fact no president has gone on the picket line. With America's workers toiling in 12 hour shifts for weeks in auto factories, and a technological revolution taking place with transition to electric cars EV's, president Biden set up the investments in EV's and stood on the picket line for the UAW in Wixom, Michigan to raise the depressed wages of workers and families sometimes making less than the federal poverty level. (Goal No. 3: Income and Wages Fairness and Goal No. 2: Cost of Living Action). The agreement reached by the UAW increased wages by 25% through 2028.

Shown here in NYT is a  young family of workers at a UAW plant in Michigan tell their own story of 12 hour shifts week after week with both husband and wife on the assembly line, and little time to raise a small child, struggling to make ends meet. The UAW settlement means a lot- it is hope for a family's  future, and hope for the future of America. (Goal No. 10: Health Body Mind Care)

President Biden's plans for charging stations for EV's are for 500,000 public charging ports locations by 2030. The goal is to have 50% of cars as EV's by 2030. To build out this public charging ports capacity Biden plans an initial investment outlay of $24 billion. This could reach $55 billion as 1 million public charging ports will be needed by 2030. (Goal No. 1: Climate Change Action and Goal No. 6: Capital Allocation for Infrastructure and Public Goods, Services)

President Biden haas asked for $18 billion for childcare stabilization. In some cases childcare providers most of them women, make less than parking attendants. 16,000 childcare providers closed in 15 months through March 2021. A Republican controlled Congress has yet to respond. This is the kind of infrastructure that the nation desperately needs today for women to join or remain in the workforce. It has been described as a motherhood penalty. (Goal No. 3: Income and Wages Fairness and Goal No. 6: Capital Allocation for Public Goods and Services)

In the 6 years to 2022 3000 solar companies closed in the US in a bloodbath. Enter the Biden Inflation Reduction Act with a major climate law in 2022. In 2023 the $8 billion investment in the US in solar energy is 3 times that of the previous 6 years. China built its solar industry with subsidies. The US is determined to rapidly build its solar energy industry with incentives and support to solar companies.