{"id":2207988,"date":"2024-03-28T05:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-touts-creation-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-jobs-in-central-america\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:25:00","slug":"kamala-touts-creation-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-jobs-in-central-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-touts-creation-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-jobs-in-central-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala highlights the establishment of hundreds of thousands of jobs in Central America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-touts-creation-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-jobs-in-central-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2207988&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House praises Vice\u2063 President Kamala Harris for her efforts in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youngkin-casts-doubt-on-building-small-nuclear-reactor-in-southwest-virginia\/\" title=\"Youngkin skeptical about constructing small nuclear reactor in Southwest VA\">creating high-quality jobs<\/a> in northern Central America to combat economic insecurity and address the root\u200c causes of illegal immigration. This initiative follows a surge in\u2062 the US unemployment rate to a two-year peak in \u2062February. President Biden hailed the American economy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-christian-pastor-released-from-prison-after-7-years\/\" title=\"Christian pastor from China freed after serving a 7-year prison sentence\">strength amidst challenges<\/a>. \u200dVice President\u200b Kamala Harris is being commended by \u2063the White House for her work in establishing high-quality jobs in northern Central America to tackle economic insecurity and address the root causes of illegal immigration. This comes in\u200b light of the US unemployment rate reaching a two-year high in February, \u200bwith President Biden acknowledging the resilience of the American economy during turbulent times.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-torched-over-disastrous-jobs-report-hes-not-the-next-fdr-hes-the-next-jimmy-carter\/\" title=\"Biden Torched Over Disastrous Jobs Report: He\u2019s Not The Next FDR, He\u2019s The Next Jimmy Carter\">unemployment rate increased<\/a> to two-year high in February<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\tKamala Harris (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The White House is touting work from Vice President Kamala Harris to combat &#8220;economic insecurity&#8221; by creating hundreds of thousands of &#8220;high quality jobs&#8221;\u2014in northern Central America.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/03\/25\/fact-sheet-update-on-the-u-s-strategy-for-addressing-the-root-causes-of-migration-in-central-america-3\/#:~:text=Vice%20President%20Harris%20continues%20to,compelled%20to%20leave%20their%20homes.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact sheet<\/a> released Monday, the White House provided an &#8220;update&#8221; on Harris&#8217;s efforts to address the &#8220;root causes&#8221; of illegal immigration. One section, titled &#8220;Creating Opportunities,&#8221; notes that &#8220;U.S. government support for as many as 23,000 private sector firms in northern Central America has helped create and sustain up to an estimated 250,000 jobs.&#8221; The fact sheet goes on to tout U.S. taxpayer-funded vocational training and jobs summits for residents of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vice President Harris continues to lead the implementation of the Root Causes Strategy, which tackles the drivers of irregular migration,&#8221; the sheet says. &#8220;These efforts provide hope and opportunity to the people of Central America, affirming that a secure and prosperous future lies in their home communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harris&#8217;s focus on Central American jobs comes amid rising unemployment in the United States. The unemployment rate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/us\/us-job-growth-accelerates-february-unemployment-rate-rises-39-2024-03-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spiked to a two-year high<\/a> in February, and in Washington, unemployment is at its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2024\/mar\/25\/was-unemployment-rate-at-its-highest-point-since-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highest level<\/a> since the COVID-19 pandemic. President Joe Biden responded to those rates by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/03\/08\/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-february-jobs-report\/#:~:text=We%20added%20275%2C000%20jobs%20last,Inflation%20keeps%20coming%20down.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling<\/a> the American economy &#8220;the envy of the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden tapped Harris to serve as the administration&#8217;s border czar in 2021. &#8220;When she speaks, she speaks for me,&#8221; he said of Harris at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly two months after the announcement, in June 2021, Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/02\/politics\/kamala-harris-guatemala-mexico-first-foreign-trip\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traveled<\/a> to Guatemala and Mexico in an attempt to &#8220;advance a comprehensive strategy to tackle the causes of migration.&#8221; Harris had not visited the southern border as vice president at the time of the trip, though she <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-border-crisis-laugh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed she had<\/a> during an interview with NBC conducted in Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At some point, you know, we are going to the border,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been to the border. So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border. We&#8217;ve been to the border.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You haven&#8217;t been to the border,&#8221; NBC&#8217;s Lester Holt responded. &#8220;I, and I haven&#8217;t been to Europe,&#8221; Harris said before laughing. &#8220;And I mean, I don&#8217;t\u2014I don&#8217;t understand the point you&#8217;re making.&#8221; Harris visited the border <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/23\/politics\/kamala-harris-going-to-the-border\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for the first time<\/a> as vice president weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the Biden administration has spent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/news-information\/press-releases\/nov-28-2023-usaid-announces-more-450-million-development-funding-address-root-causes-migration-central-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than $1 billion<\/a> in taxpayer funds on its &#8220;Strategy for Addressing the Root Causes of Migration in Central America.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>In addition to its vocational trainings and job summits, the administration has funneled tens of millions of dollars to Central American &#8220;labor rights actors,&#8221; announced two $6 million &#8220;soil mapping projects&#8221; in Guatemala and Honduras, and &#8220;supported over 140 journalists and more than 25 news outlets from Central America to improve investigative reporting on issues of public interest,&#8221; according to the White House fact sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, the strategy has not stopped migrants from flocking to the southern border. Migrant encounters at the southern border exceeded 300,000 in December, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/migrant-crisis-broke-new-record-in-december-with-302k-encounters-officials-confirm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-time high<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, the US saw a rise in unemployment rates to a two-year peak. Vice President Kamala Harris is championing efforts to address economic insecurity by generating numerous high-quality jobs in northern Central America. The White House recently shared a progress report on Harris&#8217;s initiatives in a detailed fact sheet issued on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2088,"featured_media":2207989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kamala.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kamala.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}