Vice President Kamala Harris and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will visit New Orleans on June 30 for the Essence Festival of Culture, both aiming to tout President Biden's economic agenda.
They will be taking in events on Day 1 of the festival, for which as many as 500K revelers are expected to the city.
On Harris' and Yellen's agenda is a stop at the Essence Festival’s Global Black Economic Forum in the afternoon, where Harris will talk about the administration's initiatives "on racial equity, economic justice and reproductive rights" according to a press release.
Yellen is scheduled to deliver a speech about policies aimed at "unlocking economic opportunities" for under-represented communities, according to the Treasury Department release.
The visits are part of a broader campaign kicked off by Biden on June 28 in a Chicago speech where he embraced the term "Bidenomics," which favors direct support for key industries, especially in the field of alternative energy. [Previously related story: La. BIO team ... Post: Edit (blogger.com)]
Yellen's first stop on Friday will be at PosiGen, a solar energy company headquartered in New Orleans. (NOLA.com 06/29/23) Kamala Harris, Janet Yellen come to New Orleans for Essence | National Politics | nola.com
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