Kamala Harris is running on a ticket that promotes her gender, race, and background as selling points. If she wins, she’ll be the first female President in its history. It alone is a notable feature of the election race.
Yet the issue is how her background influences her politics and what it now means for Americans. Harris says she grew up in a rented home and her mother brought their first house as a teenager.
Her idea is to make it possible for more Americans to copy this example. Her key promise is to give $25,000 to help first time buyers. However, to have a home involves more than a one-off payment, as it were.
Her other proposals include tax reliefs for families and lowering prices by penalising “price gouging” to ease a cost of living crisis. It would appear such ideas might plug a gap in her plan to help more Americans.
The outcome of these proposals is set on a backdrop of debt for college-educated Americans, as well as a need for more jobs to be created. In appealing to the American middle class Harris has set herself a hard task.
