Families across our country by providing a tax credit as large as 25 for employers who offer up to 12 weeks of paid family leave. Employees would be able to take this time without needing to choose between potentially falling behind on their bills or spending time caring for their loved ones. Caring for families today does not just mean taking care of children. My proposal helps to ease burdens on family caregivers taking care of aging parents as well. The Senate Special committee on aging recently released a report focusing on americas aging workforce and the opportunities and challenges associated with it. One of its findings is that a growing group of aging workers are also caregivers. In fact, one out of every four employees over the age of 50 serves as a family caregiver. Some employers are implementing strategies to support them, but i believe that this credit will go a long way in encouraging additional employers to take proactive steps to help these workers. This proposal also
Power launch starts now. Yeah, despite the dow being down a couple of points, another record day they have added value in your money. Inside the markets theres some big movers out there twitter on face for its best day since june still down 50 plus percent since going public what a comeback. Up 13 this year shares of ethan allen down about 4 saying business was hurt by all the hurricanes retail remains wrinkled. Losing half its value after warning on profits and getting two downgrades and breaking news equifax shares taking another dip. Taking down of one of its web pages on reports of another hack well have more on this developing story straight ahead. All right thank you very much. We begin this hour in d. C. President trump couldnt get any help from congress on health care now he is using his executive powers the power of the pen to make big changes to obamacare reporter thats right. The president frustrated up on capitol hill so hes taking some limited, unilateral action on health
The snow showers and then skies will slowly clear with temperatures falling through the 30s and the 40s into the 20s overnight tonight. So its ba tock that much colder air we have another clipper coming tomorrow morning and a colder pattern in the seven day forecast. Well be back with that with your seven day in just a few minutes. All right, kathy. Thanks. Remember you can always get up to the minute weather and live looks at ultimate doppler head to fox29. Com. Happening right now, a mothers pain. A young woman and a young girl both killed by a hitandrun driver and tonight a suspected drunk driver arrested but of course nothing will bring back the lives lost in this crash. A 19yearold mother of two and her 10yearold sister both died and their mother is now speaking out. As fox 29s bruce gordon reports she wants her story to save you from her pain. Reporter a Family Members gathered to mourn fouryearold hakeem and threeyearold at a jay seemed blissfully unaware that their mom was the
To reasonable policies. Francine good morning. This is bloomberg surveillance. We have great guests. We will be talking dollar, pound, and some of the greek bonds. First things first. Thats check in on your markets. This is the picture. Banks in the u. S. Yesterday leading the rally, as janet yellen, with her comments yesterday, seemed have buoyed equities. A lot of banks in europe are still gaming. 1. 6 for the industry in europe. Stocks in general are gaming. A next bag in terms of earnings. Lot has been playing out on the currency markets. Chinese stocks in hong kong jumping after record new credit fueled optimism for strength of the chinese economy. Lets get straight to the first word news. Here is nejra cehic. Trumpsides to donald president ial campaign had contact with russian intelligence officials according to the New York Times citing former and current officials saying intercepted calls show repeated contacts with senior russian intelligence officials in the year before the e
Platform of white supremacy. When things were a bit more calm when conway appeared with robby mook a short time later, that didnt stop either one from continuing their attacks. I think theres a lot of things we need to exam coming out of this. Congress has got to investigate what happened with russia. We cannot have foreign aggressors intervening with the electio election. I think the biggest piece of fake news in this election was that donald trump couldnt win. The federalist, david wall joins us in a moment. First to Trace Gallagher with m more. It got heated. Theyve all been civil until now. In fact the moderator at harvard kept reminding the dam pain this was meant to be a first draft of history for generations to come. Future generations will now how bitter this campaign was. One of the most contentious back and forth came when Clinton Communications director jen palmieri con deemed steve bannon for providing a platform for white supremacy. You think i ran a campaign where White S