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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Business
John Power

US econ­o­my ‘envy of the world’: Biden takes on Trump’s big ad­van­tage

US President Joe Biden has struggled to convince voters that the economy is in good shape [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]

United States President Joe Biden has hailed the US economy as the “envy of the world” as he seeks to assuage voters’ doubts about his economic stewardship in an election year.

In a fiery State of the Union address on Thursday, Biden pointed to a series of economic data points, including record job creation and rock-bottom unemployment, to make the case that the economy has gone from strength to strength on his watch.

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