[ ] anita: live from america s news headquarters, i m anita vogel. pacific gas and electric announcing saturday s canceling all employee bonuses for 2018. the utility company declared bankruptcy last month. it said it has $30 million in liability after it was claimed its equipment caused the california wildfires. more than 90 people have died after drink tainted alcohol in india. police say they linked the latest deaths to a batch of home brewed booze laced with methanol. a dozen people have been arrested. i m anita vogel, now back to justice with judge jeanine.
what a difference a year makes. one year ago today donald trump was celebrating the passage of a giant tax cut. remember this photograph? that he claimed against almost every expert opinion would be a huge boost to the economy and to middle class workers. his treasury secretary claimed that as a result, quote, the stock market will go up higher. a year later all major stock indices were down today and for the year by a lot. the dow fell today. and as for those huge benefits to workers that donald trump promised, well instead companies spent their tax savings this year on record stock buy backs while employee bonuses hardly moved at all. the economic uncertainty extends far beyond wall street. this week the president announced another $4.9 billion in bail outs to farmers who are still suffering as a result of
was celebrating the passage of a giant tax cut. remember this photograph? that he claimed against almost every expert opinion would be a huge boost to the economy and to middle class workers. his treasury secretary claimed that as a result, quote, the stock market will go up higher. a year later all major stock indices were down today and for the year by a lot. the dow fell today. and as for those huge benefits to workers that donald trump promised, well instead companies spent their tax savings this year on record stock buy backs while employee bonuses hardly moved at all. the economic uncertainty extends far beyond wall street. this week the president announced another $4.9 billion in bail outs to farmers who are still suffering as a result of the trump trade war. despite donald trump s claim that he had reached an incredible deal with china as it
reform by benefiting, they were able to pay employee bonuses that we were not anticipating being able to pay before the tax reform. dean: you were up there with your sons on stage, excuse me, with the president,. yes. dean: and obviously they benefited as well. absolutely. they benefited because i received a bonus and my family were able to take those funds and invest back into them, you know, invest back into their education, their future, which is definitely ultimately at the end of the day going to benefit them as a whole. individuals who is looking to make a career upon graduation. so we re excited as a family, a middle class family again who was able to benefit so much from this opportunity. abby: you know, you hear
stages. the plan let s amazon branch out into another industry. jpmorgan chase and capital one declined to comment. it shows the juggernaut that is amazon. united airlines back tracking on the employee bonuses with a lottery prize. the workers hated the idea. instead of giving quarterly bonuses, united planned to award one employee $100,000 via lottery system. a majority of workers would lose up to $1,500 a year. a company never trying to kind of a program. they tried it out and it was just immediately met with ke skeptics. people want bonuses. early start continues right now with the crazy sam nunberg