Time - INT (2022-06-06)

In his fi rst 16 months as

President, Joe Biden has

done exactly what he said

he would do if elected—

help America overcome an

unprecedented pandemic,

rebuild a battered economy

from the bottom up and

middle out so that it works

for all of us, and restore our

standing in the world.

Under President Biden,

Americans have received

more than 575 million

COVID-19 vaccine doses,

schools and businesses

have safely reopened, and

life is returning to nor-

mal. The economy has cre-

ated 8.3 million jobs—a

record at this point in any

presidency—and unem-

ployment has been nearly

cut in half. Five million

more people have

gained health insurance.

and human rights.

We still face stern tasks,

including taming infl a-

tion without causing a re-

cession, and combatting

violent crime. The usual

sound bites and answers

that dominate the news

won’t help. But a get-the-

job-done leader who cares

more about the people

than the polls, more about

winning the future than re-

writing history, will. That’s

who Joe Biden is. And why

I’m glad he’s on the job.

Clinton is the founder

of the Clinton Foundation

and the 42nd President

of the United States

A historic bipartisan infra-

structure law will improve

our roads and bridges, bring

clean water to more com-

munities, and expand af-

fordable broadband. This

work will create even more

good- paying jobs and im-

prove our competitiveness

for years to come.

On the global stage,

President Biden has uni-

fi ed our democratic allies

across Europe and around

the world to isolate Russia

and provide military and

humanitarian assistance to

the brave people of Ukraine,

while restoring U.S. leader-

ship on key issues including

climate change, democracy,

combines fi scal responsibility

with a more competitive econ-with a more competitive econ-

omy, better social protections omy, better social protections

and working conditions, social and working conditions, social

equality and inclusion, and equality and inclusion, and

protecting the environment. protecting the environment.

With a divided polity and With a divided polity and

the hard work under way of the hard work under way of

creating a new constitution, creating a new constitution,

Boric will need all the skills he Boric will need all the skills he

has already demonstrated—has already demonstrated—

listening and communicating, listening and communicating,

empathy, and a deep under-empathy, and a deep under-

standing of Chilean history standing of Chilean history

and culture. He is making and culture. He is making

Chile the social, economic, Chile the social, economic,

and political laboratory of the and political laboratory of the

world once again. world once again.

Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize– Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–

winning economist and a pro-winning economist and a pro-

fessor at Columbia Universityfessor at Columbia University

Joe Biden

Navigating complex

challenges

BY BILL CLINTON

On March 11, 2022, 36-year-

old Gabriel Boric became old Gabriel Boric became

Chile’s youngest-ever Presi-Chile’s youngest-ever Presi-

dent, with more votes cast for dent, with more votes cast for

him than any other President him than any other President

in the country’s history. The in the country’s history. The

former student leader’s win former student leader’s win

represented a changing of the represented a changing of the

guard, but more importantly it guard, but more importantly it

marked a change in direction marked a change in direction

for Chile’s economy, and pos-for Chile’s economy, and pos-

sibly the world’s. sibly the world’s.

The night Boric won the The night Boric won the

primaries, he promised, primaries, he promised,

“If Chile was the birthplace of “If Chile was the birthplace of

neoliberalism, it will also be its neoliberalism, it will also be its

grave!” and that has become grave!” and that has become

the rallying cry for those the rallying cry for those

around the world looking for around the world looking for

an alternative to the right-wing an alternative to the right-wing

economic policies of the past economic policies of the past

fi ve decades. Boric’s approach fi ve decades. Boric’s approach

GGabriel Babriel Boricoric

Progressive PresidentProgressive President

B Y J O S E P H S T I G L I T ZB Y J O S E P H S T I G L I T Z

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