
President Joe Biden arrives at Columbia Metropolitan Airport on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in South Carolina. - Sydney Dunlap/The State/TNS
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- “Bidenomics” is to thank for bringing hundreds of new clean energy manufacturing jobs to the South Carolina Midlands, President Joe Biden said Thursday, standing inside a West Columbia facility that will begin partnering in the production of solar energy products. In his first official appearance in South Carolina since 2021, Biden touted his administration’s economic strategy that he says is investing in the middle class and building the economy “from the bottom up,” evidenced by thousands of new manufacturing jobs spreading across the Palmetto State, he said. “It’s all part...