this is new day and it will be an historic day in the u.s. congress. you re looking at live pictures of the u.s. capitol where later this morning, we do expect final passage of the $1.9 trillion relief package. this is a monumental piece of legislation that will have a huge impact. a new round of direct payments, the largest ever to americans, but it does much much more than that. child tax credits, more money for schools and health care on and on. the president will sign it ahead of his first prime-time address to the nation tomorrow night. and then he ll hit the road to sell the plan, which may not be that hard. we have a brand-new cnn poll which shows strong bipartisan support for the bill and especially what s inside it. the president s prime-time address will mark one year since the official start of the pandemic. today, nearly one in ten americans have been fully vaccinated, but there s still a along way to go for herd immunity. and public health officials say peopl
it s one thing to say the public sector pension system needs to be cut back, effects will be felt unevenly, 19% employed by the government, 14% of white and 10% of latino. cutting pensions would hit black retirees especially hard. insult added to injury, significant portion of african-american seniors live in poverty. 19% currently living in poverty compared to 9% of seniors as a whole. many might call something a fix but what could actually be a system of increasing racial equalities plaguing our system. we re talking during the break we can t separate from from 99/1% narrative. we talk about fairness, lets talk about policy and self-interest. if you re well off self-supported merchant of high-end furniture in the detroit suburbs today, you don t want people losing their pensions, because that goes down the chain.