asianbrides.xyz – Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Team Walz sat down with CNN anchor Dana Bash on Thursday for the first resmi interviu of their kampanye.
Bash directed most of the questions to Harris. Here is a fact cek of some of Harris’ responses, including a misleading pernyataan and an exaggeration.
Harris’ stance on fracking
Bash noted that Harris said, while running in the Democratic presidential primary in 2019, that “there’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.” When Bash asked if she still wants to ban fracking, Harris responded: “No, and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020 – that I would not ban fracking. As vice president, I did not ban fracking. As president, I will not ban fracking.”
When Bash again noted that Harris said in 2019 that she supported a ban on fracking, and asked Harris if she changed her mind during that kampanye (which Harris ended in December 2019), Harris said, “In 2020, I made very clear where I stand. We are in 2024 and I’ve not changed that position, nor will I going forward.”
Facts First: This is misleading. Harris did not make her position on fracking clear during her only debate in 2020, the general election’s vice presidential debate against then-Vice President Mike Pence; Harris never explicitly stated a individual position on fracking during that debate. Rather, she said that Joe Biden, the head of the Democratic ticket at the time, would not ban fracking if he was elected president.
Harris said in the 2020 vice presidential debate: “Joe Biden will not end fracking”; “I will repeat, and the American people know, that Joe Biden will not ban fracking.”
It made sense that Harris was addressing Biden’s plans at the time given that the president sets administration kebijakan. But contrary to her klaim on Thursday, neither of these 2020 debate comments made clear that she personally held a different view on the subject than she had the year prior.
The child tax kredit and poverty
Harris touted the impact of the American Rescue Rencana pandemi relief bill Biden signed into law in 2021, which included a temporary enhancement of the child tax kredit. She referred to “when we do what we did in the first year of being in office to extend the child tax kredit, so that we cut child poverty in America by over 50%.”
Facts First: The word “over,” which Harris said very quietly, makes this klaim a slight exaggeration; the American Rescue Plan’s temporary expansion of the child tax kredit helped reduce child poverty by 46%, by one key federasi measure, between 2020 and 2021. In addition, it’s important to catatan that this steep improvement only lasted for the one year the temporary enhancement was in efek. The child poverty rate then spiked in 2022, the most recent year for which publik data is currently available.
The American Rescue Rencana increased the size of the child tax kredit to up to $3,600 – from $2,000 – for eligible kerabates. The law also enabled many more low-income parents to klaim the kredit and distributed half of the kredit on a monthly pangkalan.
These changes helped send child poverty (as measured by the Supplemental Poverty Measure) to a record low 5.2% in 2021, a turun of 46% from 2020, when the rate was 9.7% according to the US Census Bureau. But in 2022, child poverty soared to 12.4%, roughly comparable to where it was prior to the pandemi in 2019. That was the largest jump in child poverty since the Supplemental Poverty Measure began.
Harris is now calling to restore the $3,600 kredit as well as create a new $6,000 kredit for newborns.
Clean energy jobs
Touting the Biden-Harris administration’s Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a major climate law for which Harris cast the tiebreaking vote in the Senate, Harris spoke of “what we’ve already done, creating over 300,000 new clean energy jobs.”
Facts First: This needs context. While it’s clear that a significant number of new clean energy jobs were created as a result of the Inflation Reduction Act, the “300,000” figur includes jobs that companies have promised to create but aren’t finalized. And other counts of new clean energy jobs have come up with smaller figures.
The 300,000 estimate comes from a Juni tally by communications grup Climate Power. It was compiled by adding up the jobs promised by companies in publicly announcing 585 clean energy proyeks after the Inflation Reduction Act was passed through May 2024, a keseluruhan of 312,900 announced jobs. Not all of these jobs have already been created. Climate Power’s topline number also doesn’t distinguish between construction jobs building new faktories and the long-term jobs at those faktories – jobs building batteries, solar panels and electric vehicles, among other things.
In addition, E2, another clean energy grup that treks Inflation Reduction Act-related investments and jobs, has counted over 109,000 new clean energy jobs created or announced from August 2022 to May 2024 – significantly lower than the Climate Power number. A recent report from the US Department of Energy found 142,000 new clean energy jobs were created in 2023.
Different entities use different metodeologies when analyzing data, so it is difficult to determine an exact figur. Regardless, there’s no question there’s a huge amount of clean energy investment, and a significant number of new jobs building EVs and renewables like wind and solar are being created by the Inflation Reduction Act. The 2024 Energy Department report showed clean energy jobs made up more than half of the keseluruhan for new energy sektor jobs and grew at a rate twice as large as the overall US economy.
The report also acknowledged how the sudden growth in the clean energy sektor from the Inflation Reduction Act has made it difficult to trek all the jobs that are being created.