Can Joe Biden oversee an economic boom that unites a divided US?

As vice president during the Great Recession of 2007-2009, Joe Biden learned the importance of robust stimulus relief.

When Joe Biden entered the White House as vice president, the United States economy was cratering. Job losses were mounting. Stocks were crashing. Millions of Americans were in the early stages of losing their homes to foreclosure as the housing bubble burst. Biden returns to the White House as president a dozen years later with the economy battered and shaken by a pandemic. But this time is different — and it could reset the nation’s politics if Biden and Democrats can count on a level of growth not seen in a generation. Despite the 9.8 million jobs lost due to the coronavirus, there are signs the country is on the cusp of a kind of boom unseen in the eras of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.