Biden uses progressive message to roll out his moderate economic plan

Joe Biden took to the podium Thursday in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, to unveil his economic platform as a candidate running for president of a country facing simultaneous economic, health and racial crises.

The presumptive Democratic nominee’s message was different than the one he laid out previously in the swing state in 2019, when the unemployment rate was around 3% and he had to remind the country there was a “forgotten America” struggling even as the U.S. economy soared.

With unemployment at 11% and unemployment claims surpassing 1 million weekly,...