amount of money to have to spend to just tread water. laura: it s getting worse than that. any wage gains that americans have seen have been totally swamped by the 8.3% rise in the consumer price index. so you might have gotten a wage increase but for the average american that is still lost money. your accounts are going down. your savings is going down if you have any to begin with so that s why. your cash is worth less because of inflation and the costs are going up. that s right. if we go to the financial sector, in the stock market, if you put $10,000 in the stock market when president trump took office, it about doubled over his four years. it s down about 30% this year. if you think about it, what that means is for the typical american family that has little more than $100,000 in wealth, that means they lost about
yesterday we witnessed a man and his friend try to illegally cross between mexico and eagle pass. they tried to cross the rio grande river. in this video on the right you can see the man struggling to tread water. his friend is holding onto a cement pillar screaming for help. eventually the man on the right goes under and doesn t come back up. he drowns. witnessed by dozens of people including mexican and u.s. authorities on scene. our fox news drone that was flying at the time captured the surviving man as he struggled to cling to the pillar. he lets go and is carried some 150 yards down river. the currents were strong because the nearby dam had just released water. the man floats to the foot of a nearby bridge where he sits in the middle of the river. takes out a cell phone that he had packed in a plastic bag to protect it against the water. visibly exhausted and shaken and i began talking to the man.
the tragic results. former acting i.c.e. director in moments, but first bryan llenas in eagle pass, texas, more attempts to cross where he has been reporting from. what have you seen, and hello. bill, good afternoon. this morning we saw six people, venezuelans and cubans successfully make it across the rio grande river. yesterday we witnessed one man who did not. the video is disturbing, it shows one man drowning, trying to tread water as he made his way to eagle pass, texas. you can see him struggling, and his friend on the left is screaming for help. he goes under and does not come back up. fox news was in the air flying at the time and captured the surviving man, he eventually lets go, and the currents were strong, the nearby dam had just
changes to national insurance. you and your employer will have to pay more. a quick reminder on the numbers. let s take a look at some examples of what that actually looks like. if you re earning £30,000 a year, you ll pay an extra £21a in national insurance contributions than you were before. if you re on £80,000 a year, you will pay an extra £839. but from july it all changes again. the threshold at which you start paying national insurance is going up. it ll mean anyone earning less than about £3a,000 a year will pay less national insurance than they did last year. anybody earning more than that will pay more. lots of businesses are coming out of the pandemic and are struggling to tread water. it s a big day for them. for example, one staff member on the living wage,