Good morning. It is Saturday, February 6th. I'm Ali Valshi. Back in 2009, President Barack Obama assumed office with the country falling off an economic cliff.

Twelve years later, President Joe Biden has a similar hole to help the country climb out of.

Just 49,000 jobs were added in January.

It's a pittance of the number needed to offset the devastation from the pandemic

and the failed former administrations failed efforts to help the American people,

which amounted a little more than let them eat cake.

Even worse, long-term unemployment, which is defined as being out of work for

longer than six months, is very close, very close to the highs set during the Great Recession.

Almost 40% of jobless Americans in January were long-term unemployed. Right now, there are an

estimated 10 million fewer jobs than before the

pandemic. So remember that any time some ninkum poop tries to say that the failed former president

was so great for the economy, this is where the rubber hits the road. Now, thankfully, we're no

longer under the cartoonish leadership of the failed former president. Now, our current

commander-in-chief, Joe Biden has plans based on expert strategy and science for how to help

the country and the American people on both the economic and medical fronts in the fight

against the COVID-19 pandemic. The Biden administration is deploying 1,110 active-duty

service members, including teams from the Army, the Air Force,

the Navy, and the Marines to support five FEMA COVID-19 vaccination centers across the country.

The first team is set to arrive in California in about 10 days.

The Biden White House also says it will soon utilize the Defense Production Act in several ways

to procure equipment and supplies for Pfizer to make additional vaccine, to tap six companies

to make 61 million at-home COVID-19 tests by the end of summer, and to build factories

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