How Successful Was The Biden Administration In Addressing Racial Equity So Far?

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🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as the president took office: tackling the pandemic, responding to the climate crisis, addressing racial inequality, and rejuvenating the economy. Over the past few weeks, the NPR Politics Podcast checked in on whether those goals being met.

Today we look at racial equity. The Biden administration pledged to center people of color in their hiring and policy decisions. But over the past year other crises took centerstage. How successful were they in delivering for people of color?

This episode: White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, White House correspondent Scott Detrow, and climate correspondent Jeff Brady.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's YenPir politics podcast. I'm a smahkali that cover the White House.
0:08.0	I'm Ayasar Asko, I also cover the White House.
0:10.5	And I'm Wana Summers and I cover politics.
0:13.2	And first off, I just want to say that I love when it is the three of us together on
0:17.0	podcast.
0:18.0	It has been a long time.
0:19.0	Yeah.
0:20.0	But women of color talking through politics.
0:23.2	So I love this for us.
0:24.8	I love this for all you listeners.
0:26.3	I hope you enjoy this show.
0:28.3	They will.
0:29.3	They will enjoy it.
0:30.3	We're glad to be here.
0:33.2	At the end of 2021, we spent some time on the show talking through the president's four
0:38.9	pillars.
0:39.9	You know, these are the key four priorities that he had when he took office.
0:43.1	And we discussed his report card on addressing climate change, COVID and the economy.
0:47.5	Today we're going to round out that conversation by focusing on how the president has and has
0:52.4	not addressed racial equity in his first year in office.
0:56.0	So are you sure why don't you begin by taking us back to the early days of the Biden presidency
1:01.6	and remind folks what the president and his team pledged to do?
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