National Family Week, 2022

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 10498 of November 18, 2022

National Family Week, 2022

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

During National Family Week, we celebrate the power of
family, whose love and dreams for the future have made
this Nation strong for generations.

For me and the First Lady, family is everything. That
is why, from day one, my Administration's top priority
has been to build an economy that works for working
families. Our American Rescue Plan provided families
with thousands of dollars each in stimulus checks and
tax credits, slashing child poverty by nearly half and
cutting food insecurity by a quarter. It helped to
reopen schools, easing the burden on overstretched
parents, and it gave every American access to free
COVID-19 vaccines so families separated by the pandemic
could finally be together. Last summer, I signed the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to rebuild roads,
bridges, ports, and public transit--reviving
communities and creating good-paying jobs to raise a
family on. This law is replacing lead pipes in homes
and schools so every child in America has clean
drinking water. It is expanding broadband internet so
no child has to sit in a fast-food parking lot to get
Wi-Fi for their homework. It is building resilient
infrastructure in flood- and fire-prone areas,
protecting family homes from the threat of climate
change.

I also signed the historic Inflation Reduction Act,
capping annual prescription drug costs for seniors on
Medicare at $2,000. We are lowering the cost of hearing
aids and making them available over the counter, saving
millions of Americans with hearing loss up to $3,000
per pair. We are working to ban ``junk fees''--those
unfair, hidden charges that companies stick you with,
like surprise overdraft charges or extreme credit-card
late fees that take real money from the pockets of
American families. We have also taken historic action
to ease the burden of crippling student debt as working
families continue to recover from the strains
associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. This summer, we
passed the first major gun safety bill in nearly 30
years, taking on the epidemic of gun violence that has
ripped too many families apart. And we are working
across the Government to finally get military and
veteran families the benefits and support they deserve.

The past few years have been tough, but there are so
many bright spots to give us hope and optimism.
Economic growth and real incomes are up. Inflation and
gas prices are down. We have created a record number of
jobs with historically low unemployment. We have seen a
record number of new businesses, and manufacturing is
booming. American families' net worth is greater now
than before the pandemic. Fewer families are behind on
mortgages or credit card bills and more have health
insurance. We have much more to do--providing
affordable childcare, paid family leave, and home care
for seniors, for instance--but American families are
already seeing the benefits of an economy built from
the bottom up and middle out.

My dad had an expression: Family is the beginning,
middle, and end. May the power of family continue to be
a blessing and a great strength of our Nation.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution

and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim
November 20 through November 26, 2022, as National
Family Week. I invite States, communities, and
individuals to join together in observing this week
with appropriate ceremonies and activities to honor our
Nation's families.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.