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Think about the last learning as a result of the pandemic, as a result of, wejust had it in the headlines there, how many people are isolating, including children, we really have to get a move on and to place children and young people at the heart of whatever the levelling up the heart of whatever the levelling up agenda is and just really put them at the forefront of the recovery from this pandemic. you talk about benefit changes and that is fine, but there are much deeper, more long lasting, l...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The massive Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”), providing year-end COVID-19 relief, was signed into law by President Trump on Sunday, December 27, 2020. Among other changes, the Act extends and makes clarifying amendments to certain relief provisions in the CARES Act that was passed in March 2020. This high-level advisory focuses primarily on the changes to the Paycheck Protection Program, key real estate provision...

Dollars away from subsidies and things like that would make it cost more. now lets look at who the winners and losers are because this is actually even somebody is even more interesting. so what youll see is that when you look at the totality of all the different pieces of this plan, tax changes, as well as benefit changes and so on and so forth, you can see that for people below median income about $50,000 a year youre the big losers. people making less than $10,000 they lose an average $1,421 ...

Pension peril. >> reporter: many state and city workers around the country are worried what happened in detroit may happen to them. abru bankrupt city that starts cut pension benefits. >> theres a tendency to overpromise, underfu them, and when a problem comes up, the actuary says put in so much, theyre very ready to just defer that cost onto the next generation. >> reporter: some pensions have been improving, but a study found eight states have less than 60% of funds. illinois the worst at 45%....

Pension peril. >> reporter: many state and city workers around the country are worried what happened in detroit may happen to them. abru bankrupt city that starts cut pension benefits. >> theres a tendency to overpromise, underfund them, and when a problem comes up, the actuary says put in so much, theyre very ready to just defer that cost onto the next generation. >> reporter: some pensions have been improving, but a study found eight states have less than 60% of funds. illinois the worst at 45...

The progres prognosis for me and social security is not promising. todays annual report reinforces what many of you already believe, that without changes both are in trouble. >> reporter: with 10 thousand baby boomers retiring every day for the next two decades, its clear the young will face higher taxes if seniors collect all their social security and medicare benefits, promises that far exceed any plans to pay for them. >> were looking at over 30 trillion in total obligations that we have to f...

>> no i would not. >> with all due respect waste and fraud people have been talking it for years dont you have to make benefit changes if you are going to deal with this debt issue? >> i think you might have to make some. what you want to do first -- >> such as what? >> getting the waste and fraud out. you have to have strict enforcement you have to understand you have to have u.s. attorneys that go after this with a serious approach and realize that in order for these programs to be able to sur...

>> no, i would not. >> chris: with all due respect, sir waste an fraud, people have been talking about for years and dont you have to make benefit changes if you deal with the debt issue. >> i think you might have to make some but i think what you want to do first is -- >> such as what. >> getting the waste and fraud out. i think you have to have strict enforcement, understand that you have to have u.s. attorneys that go after this with a serious approach and realize that in order for these prog...

Adjustment. >> no, i would not. >> chris: with all due respect, sir waste an fraud, people have been talking about for years and dont you have to make benefit changes if you deal with the debt issue. >> i think you might have to make some but i think what you want to do first is -- >> such as what. >> getting the waste and fraud out. i think you have to have strict enforcement, understand that you have to have u.s. attorneys that go after this with a serious approach and realize that in order fo...