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AttemptedCivil Rights, Racial Justice & LGBTQ Issues

Under my plan, I believe the Fed should add to that responsibility and aggressively target persistent racial gaps in jobs, wages, wealth.

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AttemptedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 75%

Independently re-verified all three cited sources; all are real, live, and support the rating. (1) NPR (Aug 1, 2020) confirms the promise text is from Biden's 2020 plan: the Fed 'should add to that responsibility, and aggressively target persistent racial gaps in jobs, wages and wealth' -- nearly verbatim. (2) As president, Biden's administration formally backed the legislative vehicle for this exact policy: the White House Statement of Administration Policy of June 13, 2022 states 'The Administration supports H.R. 2543.' H.R. 2543 (originally titled the Federal Reserve Racial and Economic Equity Act) would have added a third Fed mandate requiring the Board to foster 'the elimination of disparities across racial and ethnic groups with respect to employment, income, wealth, and access to affordable credit' -- the promise's substance. (3) The House passed H.R. 2543 215-207 on June 15, 2022 (Roll Call 275), but it died in the Senate and never became law, so the Fed never received the mandate. Adversarial calibration: ATTEMPTED (+0.25) is the fair, non-inflated label. Biden's administration genuinely and formally advanced the policy (SAP endorsement + House passage) but it did not land. It is NOT CHAMPIONED, because Biden did not personally lead or sponsor the bill -- congressional Democrats (Beatty/Waters) drove it and his role was a routine executive SAP endorsement; not PARTIAL, because no part of the mandate was ever achieved; not IGNORED/ABSTAINED, because the SAP is affirmative on-record engagement. A same-record promise from either party would earn the identical label.

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