Reporter Jim Tankersley on the Economy and Election 2020
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🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 1:10.9 | From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, no matter who prevails in November, the next president will inherit an economy in shambles with the latest jobs report, showing the largest number of unemployment claims since August. |
| 1:16.4 | President Trump has been vague about his economic plan, but vows to cut taxes for the middle class, |
| 1:20.7 | impose tariffs on companies that move abroad and to repeal Obamacare. |
| 1:25.9 | Joe Biden has proposed raising taxes on those earning more than $400,000 per year, |
| 1:28.6 | expanding subsidies for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, and a $2 trillion plan to combat climate change. We learn more about their plans |
| 1:33.9 | with Jim Tancersley, who covers economic and tax policy for the New York Times and the prospects |
| 1:38.8 | for more federal aid. Join us. |
| 1:46.2 | This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. The U.S. economy is teetering with new rounds of layoffs and the |
| 1:52.5 | lack of more federal aid. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that an economic |
| 1:57.1 | stimulus deal must be struck by tomorrow in order for Congress to pass it by election day. |
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