Remarks by Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo at the Vice President’s Economic Opportunity Tour Event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

As Prepared for DeliveryThank you for the kind introduction. It’s great to be here in Milwaukee with two leaders who have been indispensable to the most equitable economic recovery in American history—Acting Secretary Adrianne Todman and Vice President Kamala Harris.If you think back four years ago, Milwaukee then was very different from Milwaukee now. Unemployment here was over 14 percent. Unemployment for the Black community across the country neared 17%. At the same time, about five people in Milwaukee County died each day from COVID-19, which, as you all know, hit the Black community especially hard.But over the past few years, the American economy has come back and is now leading the world.