Biden adviser Brian Deese tells 'Fox News Sunday' economy still has 'long way to go,' needs new spending plan
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National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said Sunday that President Biden's new spending plan is still sorely needed despite a strong March jobs report and a variety of other positive economic signs in recent months.
"The jobs numbers in March were certainly a welcome sign. It's good to see the economy starting to improve and we certainly think it's a sign that the economic and vaccination strategy that this administration has put into place from day one is starting to have an impact," Deese said. "But we have a long way to go," Deese continued. " We still are down 8.4 million jobs from where we were a year ago. We have millions of people out of work. More than 2 million women have left the labor force because they've had to choose between caring for their family members and their jobs, and so we have a long way to go." "What our plan says is let's keep the economy going. Let's see more job creation -- that's a really good thing for the economy," Deese added. "But let's also think to the longer-term about where those investments that we can make that will really drive not just more job growth but better job growth. Not just job growth in the short term but job growth in the long term by investing in our infrastructure. By investing in our research and development in a way that we haven't since the 1960s."More Related News