After the Trump years, how will Biden help the 140 million Americans in poverty? | Mary O'Hara

Getting back to normal can't be the aim of the incoming administration, as Covid has exacerbated existing inequalities

After four punch-drunk years of Donald Trump, the weeks since the November presidential election have presented a chance, despite his machinations to overturn the result, to reflect on what might come next for the tens of millions of Americans struggling to get by. What lies around the corner after the departure of an administration that brought so much destruction matters to the lives of the least well-off and marginalised people?

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