Courtesy of Elise Stefanik of RealClearPolitics
Of the many lies that Democrats and their loyal stenographers have spread about Kamala Harris, as reported in the mainstream media, one of the biggest is that a Kamala Harris presidency would bring historic economic opportunity to working women.
Unfortunately for the Democrats desperate to erase publicly available data, the numbers tell a different story. While Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have handed women the biggest pay cuts, inflationary crises, tax hikes, and economic collapse of the century, President Trump has given American women the greatest economic boost of any modern president.
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During the Trump administration, women’s median earnings increased every year, reaching an all-time high in 2020. Under President Trump, real median weekly earnings increased 8.2%, but under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they decreased 3.9%.
During President Trump’s term, unemployment rates for women overall and black women in particular were at an all-time low. In 2019, the labor force participation gap between men and women was the narrowest in history. President Trump’s economy made history with the largest number of women in the labor force in history.
This was no accident. Understanding that working women also balance their families, President Trump announced a pro-family economic agenda that included doubling the child tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000 per child and expanding eligibility. Under his leadership, nearly 40 million families received an average of $2,200, for a total credit of about $88 billion.
He then created the first paid family leave tax credit for employees earning $72,000 or less and signed into law 12 weeks of paid parental leave for federal employees. He also signed the largest-ever increase in the Child Care and Development Block Grant, expanding quality, affordable child care to more than 800,000 low-income families.
President Trump signed a provision allowing parents who give birth or adopt a child to withdraw up to $5,000 from their retirement accounts without penalty.
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A frequently asked question about balancing work and family is: Can women have it all? Under President Trump’s leadership, the answer has been a resounding yes.
That wasn’t the case with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Biden and Harris’ failed economic policies have hurt all Americans, but they’ve hit women the hardest. Women were hit hardest when Kamala Harris broke the tie by voting for Biden’s comically named “Inflation Reduction Act,” which would have accelerated inflation with massive climate spending. As a result, women are working longer and delaying retirement.
Ask any woman in America and there’s no doubt that inflation is a women’s issue. Since Kamala Harris took office as Vice President, prices have risen 19.4 percent, making it harder for women to support their families. Women are the majority of grocery shoppers, and the skyrocketing cost of groceries has forced many Americans to cut back on essentials.
A single mother of two in Nevada had to sell her car to buy groceries under Biden. A mother of two in Michigan “had to consider the price of gas before buying clothes for my kids” because Kamala Harris was a tie-breaking vote for Biden’s radical green energy policies.
According to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, families need $12,590 more a year to maintain the standard of living they enjoyed three years ago. And 67% of parents say inflation has affected their ability to pay for their children’s education, supplies, and extracurricular activities over the past school year. Since 2019, the average family’s childcare costs have increased by 32%, with nearly two-thirds spending more than 20% of their annual income on childcare.
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The average price of a pack of disposable diapers has increased 32% since 2019, and 47% of families report they cannot afford diapers. In 2022, the incompetence of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris led to a shortage of infant formula, sending prices to record highs. An estimated 44 million people lived in food insecure households in 2022, a 31% increase year-over-year and the largest one-year increase since 2008.
Women make up the majority of the American electorate, so it’s no wonder the Harris propaganda machine is working so hard to make them think they’re better off than ever. But no matter how much the Democrats lie, the numbers never say that. It shows that President Trump not only cares deeply about women and all Americans, but also knows what it takes to stimulate the economy to create historic opportunities for us.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris sees women as a convenient constituency that can be flattered, tricked and discarded to support economically powerful and radical liberal policies.
To the women voters: Don’t be fooled.
Reported with permission from RealClearWire.
