Biden’s Thousands of Promised Health Care Jobs Poised to Vanish

Billions of federal dollars to bolster public health departments nationwide may not have a lasting impact when the pool of cash dwindles, officials worry.

President Joe Biden outlined a plan to create thousands of new public health jobs, a vision Democrats sought to make reality as part of the American Rescue Plan (Public Law 117-2), signed into law last year. The administration last May vowed to spend $7.4 billion from the law to recruit new public health workers. Most of that money, $4.4 billion, was targeted to expand state and local health departments.

But health departments must compete ...