Biden-Harris Pro-Family Policies and
Kamala Harris’s Pro-Family Agenda
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have a deep concern for all families, which is why they have fought to implement their pro-family agenda. This is grounded in their bedrock belief that we are all made in the image of God and thus we are all created equal and therefore worthy of dignity and respect.
A fundamental place where we experience this dignity and respect is in a loving family. That’s why the Biden-Harris team has worked hard everyday to create policies that support and protect families. Kamala Harris will carry this fight forward when she is elected president.
Protecting Families From State Intrusion Into Private Matters
Having children is a heartfelt desire of many families. For couples trying to have a child, a miscarriage is one of the hardest experiences any family will have to endure.
For those trying to become pregnant who find out their only hope is through in vitro fertilization (IVF), this journey is fraught with emotion and can be a roller coaster of highs and lows.
Since the overturning of Roe, draconian laws and extreme court decisions have made doctors and hospitals afraid to provide standard, life-saving medical care to women having miscarriages or women whose unviable pregnancies threaten their lives and future ability to have children.
And now IVF is also threatened.

Thus, the state is intruding into these private family matters:
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preventing doctors from saving a woman’s life — someone’s wife, daughter, mom, sister;
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preventing medical care to protect the ability to have children;
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preventing IVF, taking the hope for biological children away;
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limiting contraception, disrupting family planning about when is the best time to bring a child into the family.
This is not pro-family.
Kamala Harris will continue to work hard to keep the state out of these private family matters.
Affordable, Accessible Healthcare For Families
There is nothing more important than the health of our loved ones. That is why Biden-Harris' has made healthcare coverage much more affordable and stable.
Biden-Harris' efforts have led to:
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the greatest percentage of people covered in our nation’s history, approximately 93 percent at the end of 2022 (the latest year for which there is data);
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a 9 million surge in enrollments for health coverage, from 12 million at the beginning of the Biden presidency to over 21 million in January 2024;
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four out of five people on the Healthcare Marketplace being able to find a plan for less than $10 a month, and over 90% having three or more options from which to choose;
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working families saving an average of $800 per person a year thanks to health care subsidies provided by Biden’s legislative victories;
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over 8 million being freed from struggling with medical debt;
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Insulin costs being capped at $35 per month for seniors on Medicare, saving an average of $500 per year;
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winning the ability for the government to negotiate with drug companies to lower drug prices for the first time.



Kamala Harris knows there’s more work to do. She’ll keep at it until all families have:
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good, affordable, accessible healthcare,
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low drug prices, and;
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paid family and medical leave.
A Pro-Family Economy
Economic wellbeing is one of the chief ways we can experience dignity and respect, and is a cornerstone of the Biden-Harris pro-family agenda. Kamala Harris will continue to strengthen the Middle Class, growing the economy from the bottom up and the middle out.
Good-Paying Jobs
“I believe every person in our country, then, must have access to the opportunity to compete, to succeed, and to thrive; the ability to achieve what I call financial freedom, which means having enough not just to get by but to get ahead — (applause) — to be able to build a business, to own a home, to start a family, and to create intergenerational wealth. — Kamala Harris, May 6, 2024
Guided by Biden-Harris’ strong, shared belief that everyone deserves the dignity and respect that comes from providing for one’s family with a good paying job, our economic recovery from the deep pandemic recession has been the fairest in our nation’s history.
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14 million jobs and counting have been created on Biden-Harris' watch.
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Such a wealth of jobs has led to low unemployment during the Biden-Harris presidency and the longest stretch of unemployment below 4% in over 50 years.
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This includes the lowest unemployment numbers in history for Hispanics, Blacks, and persons with disabilities.
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Melissa Calderon, President/CEO of Prosperity Now notes that the continued increase in healthcare, professional and business services, and retail and social assistance “are a blueprint for eliminating the country’s racial and ethnic income inequality.”
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Real wages are higher today for the average worker than they were in the pre-pandemic Trump years, adding $1,400 to the yearly family budget.
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Our wage increase is unique among major developed nations. While our post-pandemic wages have increased 2.8% above inflation compared to pre-pandemic, German workers, for example, earned 7.2% less.



Helping the Family Budget
Good paying jobs are the foundation of a family budget. That’s money coming in, or revenue. But then there’s money going out, i.e., costs. Some good news is that wage growth now exceeds inflation. Most of us have more money in our pockets and bank accounts for daily expenses, and at the end of the month we are coming out ahead.

Even so, higher prices for monthly expenses can leave family budgets tight. Kamala Harris will continue to work to make:
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quality childcare affordable, costing no more than 7% of a family’s income;
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pre-Kindergarten universally available for free
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Stopping Price-gouging
Biden-Harris also worked hard to stop corporations from price-gouging American families and draining family budgets — and former prosecutor Kamala Harris will keep at it.
On the cost of groceries, Biden-Harris has kept a keen eye on large supermarket chains, pressuring them to lower artificially high prices, and preventing large mergers from stifling competition.
They also have gotten rid of unfair hidden fees or “junk fees” by banks, credit cards, hotels, rental housing, cable, concerts, airlines, and healthcare.
Biden-Harris Administration has:
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made it illegal for banks to charge for basic services, such as charging $30 to check your balance;
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reduced overdraft fees by about 50%, saving an average of $150 for 33 million American families;
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stopped credit card companies from gouging people with insane fees; instead of paying an average of $31 for making a late payment, now they can’t charge you more than $8.
Bringing Inflation and Prices Down
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The inflation rate has come down 6% on Biden-Harris’s watch.
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Inflation has been a problem around the world as everyone dealt with coming out of the pandemic. But the Biden-Harris Team has worked hard and inflation in our country has been reduced more than in other developed nations.
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Biden-Harris began with snarled supply-chains left by the Trump Administration — a major contributing factor to inflation. They created a high-level task force to straighten things out and get things moving again. And they have.
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Inflation is projected to continue to fall in 2024 from 3.2% all the way down to 2.2%, according to Goldman Sachs.
