Watch: Biden visits hotly-contested 2024 campaign state of Pennsylvania
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Your support makes all the difference.Watch as Joe Biden makes his second trip of the new year to the hotly-contested 2024 campaign state of Pennsylvania on Friday, 12 January.
The US president visited small businesses in Allentown - a historic steel town - where he wasexpected to try to sell policies he sees reviving faded manufacturing hubs.
According to a White House factsheet, Mr Biden was due to visit businesses that are at the heart of his plan to support communities "too often left behind."
The White House says Allentown is "experiencing an economic comeback" under president Biden.
Mr Biden says almost 32,000 more workers in the area have jobs under his administration and its unemployment rate is down to 3.9 percent - a 20-year low.
Today, he is also expected to highlight the Biden-Harris administration’s Investing in America agenda and how 16 million new business applications have been filed during his first three years in office.
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