Until election day. I have read it to you do not have to. It has plans for every aspect of the federal government, mostly shrinking it except where it allows the government to control the lives of the citizens. And then there s this other part about cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthiest. Today center for american progress released an analysis of what project 2025 tax plan would actually look like for america s bank accounts it trump enacted it. Top lines are amazing. According to them, the tax plan would cut taxes for households making more than $10 million a year. By an average of $2. 4 million a year. That s great news for the hyper wealthy. What about the rest of america? this is a visualization of the added tax burden for a middle class a married couple with two children under plan. Families by that description that make $35,000 a year and $170,000 a year would all see taxes go up. For example a married couple making $80,000 a year would see nearly $2000 more in federal
Outside. Them widespread rainfall moves in for early next week. We are looking at sunshine this afternoon after all of that rainfall with our atmospheric river. Just to show you the dry conditions. A beautiful view. You can see that snowfall out there over Mount Hamilton and some blue skies as well. Over san francisco. You can see that sunshine. As we head through the day, we are looking at some sunshine. High temperatures in the low to mid 50s. We did pick up a lot of rainfall with this atmospheric river. The santa cruz mountains. About 2 1 2. Up to 3 1 2 inches of rainfall. Tracking our next weather system. I will let you know when we can expect to see this where you live coming up. Monitoring a couple of big news conferences. First lets go live down to san jose right now where it is a couple of unfortunate milestones. They just surpassed 100,000 cases of the coronavirus. Is mall is the first cases. Right now, santa cruz officials are about to provide some updates regarding vaccine d
Amy in philadelphia, a black mother who was attacked with her family in october by a horde of Police Officers is speaking out about the harrowing experience. Rickia young was driving an suv with her twoyearold son and teenage nephew when officers descended on the vehicle, broke all its windows, assaulted and arrested young, pulled her 16yearold nephew frothe car, and grabbed her child. We will he rickia her own wordand speato her aorney. Then we look at how the ridehailing Companies Uber and lyft scored a major victory against Worker Rights with the passage of proposition 22 in california. Theyre now pushing similar measures in other states. With this passage, this will basicivers like me from protections afforded to most in the state. These companies are promising to roll out this model tionwide. It foretells a grim future for gig workers across the country. Amy we will look at other Ballot Initiatives around the country. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democr
President elect biden good afternoon. Today, im very proud to be announcing our health care and covid team at a critical time, as we near the end of one of the toughest years weve faced as a nation. More than 285,000 dead americans because of covid19, and counting. Last week, covid19 was the number one cause of death in america. Of covid19 and counting. Last week, covid19 was the number one cause of death in america. For black, latino and native americans, were nearly three times as likely to die from it, covid19 is a mass causality. For families and friends left behind, its a gaping hole in your heart that never will be fully healed. As a country, weve been living with this pandemic for so long, were at risk of becoming numb to its toll on all of us. Were resigned to feel that theres nothing we can do. And we cant trust one another. That we must accept death, pain and sorrow. Were in the midst of this deadly pandemic that has infected almost 15 million americans. 1 out of every 22 peo
James copland come senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute for policy research and director of legal policy for the institute. Todays event casts is sponsored in cooperation with the Manhattan Institutes new policing and Public Safety initiative and we are pleased to welcome senator tim scott, republican of South Carolina. To discuss with us federal criminal Justice Reform. Senator scott is someone i look up to a lot. Hes a South Carolina senator. Im a North Carolina boy, and senator scott is somebody who in initial primary, those who watched him he defeated Strom Thurmond sent in the primary which is abuzz live in the south realize taking out in the primary the son of a long time leader is something that is quite remarkable. I dont care if youre white, black approval but senator scott of course is a black man in these only the fourth black man to serve as a u. S. Senator since reconstruction along with the great edward brooke, of course barack obama and my Law School Buddy cory boo