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The Biden Administration has been advocating for the American Families Plan, the American Jobs Plan and the American Rescue Plan. Each of these plans have price tags in the Trillions of dollars. On this episode of Today's Tax Talk, Attorney Steven A. Leahy looks at the specific proposals in the American Family Plan using the administration's own "Fact" sheets. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-leahy1/message

Financial expert JB Bryan talks about the Biden tax plan and what the changes mean to you. JB will also discuss The American Family Plan, the current real estate market and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Through the American Jobs Plan and American Family Plan, the Biden Administration have put forward ideas for sizable government spending on physical and human infrastructure, financed in part by higher taxes on companies and households. This week's episode focuses on the infrastructure part: what can investors expect moving forward? **This episode is a replay from May 3, 2021, with highly relevant themes for today's investor.*

The table below is taken from Tracey Wilson's presentation at the Agent Ignite session. These are derived from his research. If you have questions, please visit his website. This is the BIG RED button he talks about in this presentation. Here is the PowerPoint from this presentation. Here are a few points covered: 1)American Rescue Plan: $1.9 trillion for COVID Stimulus Package Passed even though $800 billion of the previously passed $2.2 trillion CARES Act (passed 3/20/20) had not been spent yet 2)American Jobs Plan: $2.3 trillion for infrastructure Raise the corporate tax rate to 28% Increase the global minimum tax paid to 15% Impose a corporate minimum tax on book income Eliminate tax benefits for the oil and gas fossil fuels sector Increase corporate tax enforcement 3)American Family Plan: $1.8 trillion for universal pre-K, free community college, SLD $50K forgiveness, paid family leave Raise individual income taxes Raise cap gains tax rate Increase estate tax Limit step-up in basis ----more---- Here's the math $1.9 trillion +  $2.3 trillion +  $1.8 trillion  = $6 trillion for new spending... Current federal debt is $28 trillion... Plus $6 trillion would make U.S. federal debt $34 trillion U.S. debt-to-income ratio would be 154%...

Die USA darf man nie unterschätzen, auch wenn China mächtig aufholt. Der Internationale Währungsfonds rechnet heuer in der größten Wirtschaft der Welt mit einem Wachstum um sieben Prozent – ok jetzt kann man sagen, wen wundert´s nach einem Pandemiejahr. Doch laut IWF wird die US-Wirtschaft auch 2022 nochmals um fünf Prozent wachsen. Wenn die Wirtschaft brummt, steigen auch die Preise. Der IWF geht heuer von 4,5 Prozent Inflation in den USA aus, die 2022 allerdings wieder auf 2,5 Prozent sinken sollte. Damit die Wirtschaft boomt, braucht es allerdings den Staat. In den USA soll der American Job-Plan und der American Family Plan gemeinsam zwischen 2022 und 2024 für insgesamt 5,3 Prozent BIP-Wachstum sorgen. Infrastruktur-Aktien oder ETF´s sind also keine schlechte Idee, solange in den USA, China, Japan und Europa die Staaten nicht auf die Schulden schauen. Für Verluste, die aufgrund von getroffenen Aussagen entstehen, übernimmt die Autorin, Julia Kistner keine Haftung. Musikrechte: https://mixkit.co/free-sound-effects (racing-countdown-timer, percussion-tick-tock-timer) #USA #Wirtschaftswachstum #Inflation #Infrastrukturaktien

More than 40 farm groups are calling on House Ag Committee Chair David Scott and other Congressional leaders to resist any new tax burdens in order to pay for President Biden's American Jobs Plan and American Family Plan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can software help urban planners tackle food access in big cities? The UrbanFootprint organization says yes. Fast Company named it one of the most innovative social good companies in 2021. Our guest today is the company's co-founder and CEO, Joe DiStefano. He's going to explain how city data and geospatial information can inform critical planning decisions about where to invest and to deploy resources to achieve urban food system resilience and to better support communities.   Interview Summary   So, let's set the stage for our listeners. What is your view of the urban food insecurity problem?   Well, today, according to our data, about 19 and a half million, nearly 20 million households, are food insecure today, and that means they don't have the financial resources to confidently put food on the table throughout a week or throughout a month. That is a growth of nearly 50% since March 2020, when the pandemic began. So, we had places that were already significantly food insecure, or households that were experiencing a lot of stress when it comes to food security before the pandemic, but this has been a pretty substantial uptick. In some of the hardest-hit states we're looking at one in five households that are food insecure. I think even more troubling than that is that more than 12 million of these households report what we know of as food insufficiency, and this means not having enough food to eat at some point in the last week. So, some of these places, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, those round out the top five right now according to our data. This is where 20% of households, and in some cases greater, are food insecure. What this striking number suggests is that existing relief programs and the existing kind of complex supply chain on the food insecurity side of things are not quite meeting the needs of some of the most vulnerable Americans.   You know, there's been a lot of attention to food insecurity during COVID, and I sure hope that when COVID is in the rear view mirror, whenever that comes, that people don't forget that it was a very significant problem to begin with. But boy, you make a good point about how it's been even worse during the pandemic. So, how does the data and a geospatial software program help with this problem? Can you describe the platform that you're building and tie that to the challenges that city planners and communities face?   Just as a really brief piece of background, so I spent about 20 years effectively playing SimCity for real; that was my job. Those of you who know that game, we did that for real, right? So, we were out there building data-oriented models of cities, and then experimenting with the impact of changes, so if you put housing here, or a transportation system here, what are the energy impacts, the water impacts, the health impacts. So, come COVID, we really oriented that data facility and that platform in the direction of some of these really challenging resource distribution issues, and this is not something I actually knew a lot about a year and a half ago.   We started doing work in Louisiana right about beginning of the COVID crisis with some folks that we had worked with in the post-Katrina, Rita recovery days in 2005, '06, '07, and one of the first things that we learned is that this COVID crisis is a very complex economic crisis. It was very unevenly distributed across communities, so in many cases poor Americans, non-white Americans were really adversely hit by economic impacts in particular. As those economic impacts started to unfurl on the landscape, we saw some very significant increases in need for things like food, very significant increases in eviction risk, very serious challenges around being able to get to test sites and medical facilities as transit systems that serve the most transit-dependent Americans turned off overnight, or dramatically reduced service. So, when we sat down with officials at federal, state agencies and relief providers in Louisiana, one of the first things we learned is that there was very substantial concern as to how to get basic needs like food to this increasing number of Americans that were needing it. So, we put our data systems to work to begin to understand that, so data that we have traditionally taken for granted as relatively static, like those transit system schedules, for example, those were now changing by the day.    So, we needed to begin to adjust information about transit systems in order to understand how people can reach healthy food. Unemployment, which used to change by 0.1 or 0.2 every six months, was now changing at double digits every week. So, we needed to start bringing in more dynamic feats around unemployment. And then, very importantly, because the COVID crisis was being experienced so unevenly at a fairly detailed level, like one neighborhood versus another neighborhood was experiencing COVID and the economic impacts of COVID very differently, we put a lot of our work that we had traditionally put into developing urban planning and detailed data down to the block level, for example, to work in order to understand how unemployment was ebbing and flowing across the landscape as well. What that ultimately led to was the ability to estimate the need for things like food relief at a much more granular level than has ever been available before.   So, we built these food security insight datasets, if you will, that now can map at the block and neighborhood level the level of food insecurity, the level of food insufficiency, and now, even more importantly, the gap between food distribution and participation in federal SNAP distribution programs, for example, and need. So, what we ended up doing was taking the same tech facility and prowess that massive companies like Amazon deploy in order to get you a toaster or an Xbox eight hours after you order it, somehow this thing arrives at your door. Why is it that that same kind of technology and that same kind of intellectual prowess can't be deployed to get relief to the most vulnerable Americans?   So, I can't tell you how impressed I am by the sophistication of this data and how detailed it can be going block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood. When you started looking at the data that you acquired this way, were there things that surprised you?   Some of the things that were most surprising or most telling, really, was again, at the granular level, the distribution of this crisis really is quite uneven. So, you look within a single city like New Orleans, or Baton Rouge, or any city in America, really, you're actually going to see very substantial differences even within a mile or two in the level of economic stress that's been experienced that was there before, in many cases, but then has really been heightened or been experienced in the COVID crisis.   So, places that have high concentrations of the sectors that have been experiencing such high unemployment are pockets of really, really deep pain and high levels of food insecurity, high levels of eviction risk. These are places that are dramatically less resilient than perhaps a neighborhood four or five blocks away from it. These are places that are least likely to be able to withstand the substantial shocks that have been coming their way, in some cases for decades that have really been sort of heightened and accelerated. So, health shocks like COVID, economic shocks like unemployment.   There are large subsections of cities, large communities that have been living at the edge for a while that the COVID crisis really sort of pushed over that edge, and so now the really substantial challenge is to ensure that relief in the form of food relief and food benefits, but also eviction relief, access to opportunity and jobs that can actually lift people above that edge.   Relief needs to be targeted into these locations, and it has traditionally been very difficult to reach these communities and to target relief to these specific places. You can't just drop relief at the county level; you actually have to really target it, and that's why we've built these datasets and that's why we've taken the detail that, say, an urban planner, or a developer, or an e-commerce company uses to understand the landscape and now begin to apply this to larger resource distribution problems like food, eviction, and other categories.   Let's get even a little more concrete. So, if you were a mayor, you were a city planner, you were a city manager, how would you take this information and do things differently than what's being done now?   Where we're seeing the most value for this data right now is actually at the front line relief providers, and then at the state agencies, and ultimately, hopefully, the federal agencies that are responsible for the distribution of these very substantial benefit programs. So, you think of the SNAP program, which is the federal food relief program, or rental assistance programs that are now coming down and being accelerated by the federal government. This kind of data can specifically do a couple different things. It can help to understand at a very detailed level and a very up-to-date level the scale of this problem. How big is this problem? How is it changing on a weekly basis or a bi-weekly basis? Is our program actually addressing the need? Do we actually see reductions in the need, or improvements in the outcome? Are people less food insecure than they were before?   Traditionally, we were using datasets that get updated every 18 months in order to estimate today's situation. It is not enough to actually understand whether a program is working. So, the first thing is just the scale, but really, the most important piece is that distribution of the problem. So, if you're going to reach the most vulnerable people, you have to understand where they are, and unfortunately, most of these programs are application-based programs. People literally have to fill out an application in order to get relief. If you want to apply for SNAP benefits or WIP benefits, these large federal and food insecurity programs that are then administered by the states, you have to fill out an application. Well, unfortunately, those that are most vulnerable, riding that edge, are not generally filling out those applications. In many cases they don't know about these programs. In other cases it's just really complex. The SNAP application is many, many, many, many pages long. It requires all kinds of information, and it's difficult to do it, so what ends up happening is that states and community-based organizations that contract with states are out there helping to enlist more people in these programs to get them aid. But you need data. You need to understand where these people are, and you need to be able to very specifically map the gap between application flow, in this case, and need.   So, what we're doing is we're mapping not just food insecurity, but we're now working with the first aid agencies. We don't bring in any personal, identifiable information. We bring in where the applications are coming from, and we map that against the need, and now we can clearly articulate where the gaps are. What that means is that community-based organizations and state actors and staff people can be going out and specifically targeting with marketing activities and other activities the locations of vulnerable households.   The real goal is to get more people enlisted in these programs. There is substantial resource out there. The federal government today, through the American Rescue Plan, the American Family Plan, it is dramatically increasing the pool of resources, but that does not mean that those resources are going to get to the right people. I very strongly believe that this is this once in many generation opportunity to use the same kind of data and facility, like I said before, that Amazon uses to get you a toaster, to get these people the resources they need in a very targeted way.   Boy, there's so many implications of this work, and I'm really happy that you could provide some concrete examples right there. So, could this technology be used to do modeling and to predict which neighborhoods might become in special need of services and things? Could you predict changes and factors that are going to lead to more food insecurity or eviction rates, or things like that in a neighborhood?   Yeah, absolutely, and actually, I would say that's much more consistent with the kind of work that urban planners and others do generally, and the kinds of things I've done for the past couple decades. And so if you look at a community, there are factors. For example, access to healthy food, which is a geospatial question. How many people are within a five or 10-minute walk of a grocery store, for example? We can map that, we can articulate that, we can index that across an environment. What are the particular sociodemographic characteristics of this place? What are the other urban characteristics of this place in terms of accessibility to facilities, transit access, access to opportunity?   If you put those things together you can really map... Think about a resilience index, if you will. One of the things that we've been working on is building out a community resilience index for every block in America. What that allows us to do is understand this relative resilience of every place across a city, across a region, across a state, across the country. Those things are really very strong indicators. Places that score low on this resilience scale are places that are more likely to currently have and to have more food insecurity, more likely to have eviction risk, more likely to experience some form of harm in a climate event.   So, for example, we do a lot of work with the energy utilities. This is all kind of in the same basic wheelhouse in order to help them understand where failure to the power grid is more likely to induce harm in a community, places where folks have higher levels of underlying health conditions, very low access to automobiles so those people can't get out of a situation if there's a heat wave, or if there's a fire, for example. These are places where grid failure will have an outside impact. Those are the less resilient places in American, and what I love to see now is at the federal level, at least on paper, we're seeing a very substantial reported investment in the resilience of these places. That is going to tackle the underlying causes of food insecurity, eviction risk, climate risk, which is really unevenly distributed. Certain communities are far more likely to experience adverse impacts of climate than others, and unfortunately, it's mostly the traditionally more disadvantaged communities in America, and so we really have a lot of work to do to rise the resilience of those places in order to address these multitude of issues.     So, one final question. Do you get a sense of how people in the communities feel about this sort of technology, and are there privacy concerns? Are there just things that one might not think about if you're just looking at the overall picture and not going into the communities?   There are certainly privacy concerns with all of this. I think people are rightfully skeptical when any technologist comes in and says, "Hey, technology's going to solve this problem." I absolutely do not believe technology is going to solve this problem on its own. This is a place where technology can absolutely help daylight and target a response, but it's not going to solve all the underlying problems. So, I think it's very important. I'm not saying that we've got some panacea here; not at all. Food insecurity alone has got a very complex supply chain. But what I can say is that we can be deploying some very substantial technology and AI and ML to serve this problem.   On the privacy side of things, yeah, I mean, people are specifically applying, providing personal information on the applications, for example. We go to pains to make sure that our systems never see that information, and that's very important from the perspective of trust, and also to abide by very specific regulations around privacy and security, in particular in states like California that have rightfully so aggressive rules around that. So, our systems never see the name, the address, or anything like that, nor do the systems need to see that. So, we're making sure that that is safe and secure and that we can do this in a way that protects the integrity of data and privacy, and respects those that ultimately are receiving relief.   Bio: Joe DiStefano is CEO and co-founder of UrbanFootprint, a software company that serves the world's first Urban Intelligence Platform to public and private-sector organizations taking on the urban, climate, and social equity challenges of the 21st century. UrbanFootprint's data and web-based geospatial software unifies previously siloed climate, environmental, urban, and socio-economic data and helps governments, utilities, financial institutions, and urban and transportation planners to answer fundamental resource questions—where to invest, where to deploy resources, and where to optimize for risk, return, resilience, and community. Before starting UrbanFootprint, Joe spent more than 20 years as a leading practitioner in the urban planning and disaster response field, working with governments and enterprises across the globe in designing cities and new technologies to tackle critical challenges in climate, land use, mobility, hazard risk, and social equity.

In the final part of their 3-part deep dive into educational leadership, Kyle & Daryl discuss new developments in the DeVos Lawsuit, the career of new Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, and the American Family Plan.....plus a TON on of Marvel/DC-induced rabbit holes. Mostly that, actually.  #NerdEDU // @NerdEDU_Podcast //  @Kyle.WD //  @DarylManese

Michael Berry takes a look at an unedited video of President Biden giving a speech to the Coast Guard; Berry talks about his involvement with small businesses, and an upcoming job fair in Houston; Max Nelsen, Director of Labor Policy for the Freedom Foundation, joins the show to discuss the American Family Plan.

Maxford Nelsen is the director of labor policy for the Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit policy advocacy and public interest litigation organization. We're discussing Biden’s American Family Plan.

John talks with The Heritage Foundation's Rachel Greszler about the proposed American Family Plan.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dan Hollaway and Dakota Meyer break down President Biden’s tax plan and its three parts: The American Rescue Plan, The American Jobs Plan, The American Family Plan. Dakota and Dan get into everything from free preschool and community college, putting electric vehicle charging stations across the country, paid family leave, spending hundreds of billions on closing racial and gender inequality gaps, and providing the entire country with broadband internet.   Go to ghostbed.com/drikinbros and use code DRINKINBROS for 30% off EVERYTHING (Mattresses, Adjustable Base, and more) -- plus a 101 Night Sleep Trial and Mattresses Made in the USA!   Go to CardoMax.com and use promo code AMERICAN, and you get Buy One Get One FREE on your first order.   Go to BuyRaycon.com/AmericanParty for 15% off your order

Mortgage Mom Radio airs weekly focusing on topics that will educate our listeners around mortgage lending. This week Debbie returns from her Mommy Makeover to peel back the curtain a little on the last couple weeks. She then continues on to inform everyone interested in a refinance that you have not missed your window, interest rates are still great for refinancing right now! Debbie and Heidi also go on to discuss loan options most people don't consider and important things to know about filing taxes if you are near closing on a home. A Look Into the Markets "Can you take me High Enough?" by Damn Yankees This past week we watched long-term rates, like mortgages, improve slightly despite a surprising comment from Treasury Secretary, Janey Yellen. Let's break it all down and look at what's on tap for next week. "It may be that interest rates will have to rise somewhat to make sure that our economy doesn't overheat" - Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen Janet Yellen was being interviewed on Zoom when she unleashed this seemingly innocent and likely honest comment. Well, it sent shockwaves across the stock market, pushing the NASDAQ down as much as 400 points on Tuesday alone. Yellen was once the Fed Chair, and in that former role, it would be her duty to share comments on monetary policy. As Treasury Secretary, it is not her role to discuss rates. Especially, considering the active Fed Chair Jerome Powell saying over and over just days earlier at the Fed Meeting that "now is not the time" to raise rates. There is big pressure on the Fed to help keep rates low. First and foremost are the upcoming "Plans" being debated in Washington D.C. The American Jobs Plan and American Family Plan are estimated to cost another $4 trillion, on top of the $1 trillion-plus still not spent from the American Rescue Plan. All this spending must be paid for by selling new bonds in the market. What we as a country can't afford now is higher rates as the expense to service all this new debt will be an enormous burden. Sell in May and Go Away Stocks, especially the tech-laden NASDAQ, may have used Yellen's comment as a reason to sell – but some of the downward pressure in stocks may be a seasonal phenomenon called "Sell in May and Go Away". The idea is that stocks generally underperform during the summer months when many take vacations, thereby creating lower trading volume, larger price swings and more risk. As you could imagine, the pain in stocks was a gain for bonds. The 10-year yield declined to 1.56%, down nicely from 1.75% from just a few weeks ago. If the summer selloff in stocks continues, we may see further improvement in rates. Opportunity knocks again With the recent improvement in rates, many more people can still benefit from a refinance and it will certainly help drive the purchase market. However – any rate improvement could be short-lived – here's three reasons why locking at today's rates may make sense: Treasury Secretary Janey Yellen's comments for higher rates, was honest. Lumber and other commodity prices are soaring – higher rates would cool that off. There is growing pressure on Fed Chair Powell to start "tapering" bond purchases. Again, in response to "frothy" assets like stocks and real estate. We are going to see higher inflation numbers over the next few weeks – what we don't know is how high the numbers will be or how bonds will react. Bonds do not like inflation – it's like kryptonite to Superman...a killer. Bottom line: Rates have improved of late, but the good times may be relatively short-lived. Those thinking about locking in today's rates should do so. Looking Ahead Next week we will get a reading on consumer inflation by way of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). It is forecast to come in above 3% year over year – mainly due to year over year increases in oil and commodities. This will be the first time in 50 years since headline year over year consumer inf...

President Biden announced his American Family Plan last week. This podcast reviews the benefits of the plan, especially for younger farm families. We also review how they will pay for the plan and how it affects typical farm families. And we spend some time on the unintended consequences of the plan.

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Que tanto de su agenda del American Family Plan pudo adelantar Biden en su mensaje a la sesión conjunta del Congreso? La aparicion de explosiva carta de Joel Greenberg hundirá mas a Rep. Gaetz en su escandalo sexual? Se arriesga CNN a una Guerra Civil por conservar a Rick Santorum luego de sus comentarios racistas? La tragedia de violencia de genero en Puerto Rico ha expuesto una problematica juridica o judicial? Podran coexistir la alegría y la tristeza en reaccion a la muerte de Carlos Romero Barceló? ADEMAS, EN SEGMENTO RANDOM: La emisora esta institucionalizando ambiente hostil laboral? Demon Slayer le dió "Fatality" a Mortal Kombat? William Byron : Su turno de ser Campeon de NASCAR Cup? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imponderableselpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/imponderableselpodcast/support

World leaders and their climate cheer leaders in Academe and Big Business have a new mantra - net zero emissions. What does it mean? How can it be achieved and what will it do for us? Are they really saving the planet or more likely - leading to a Dystopian future, where most of us will be packing boxes for Amazon in massive, retrofitted warehouses and walking home in the dark? Is this a clever plan or simply part of a modern-day Communist Manifesto that will enrich the Ruling Class beyond their wildest dreams? British PM Boris Johnson says the UK will achieve net zero by reducing emissions through shifting from gas to electricity to heat our homes and by better insulating the buildings in which we live and work. We will end the sale of petrol and diesel cars and vans, and accelerate the transition to clean, zero tailpipe emission vehicles. John O'Sullivan is CEO and co-founder (with Dr Tim Ball) of Principia Scientific International (PSI). John is not only a seasoned science writer but adept legal analyst who assisted Dr Ball in defeating world leading climate expert, Michael ‘hockey stick' Mann in the multi-million-dollar ‘science trial of the century‘. John is credited as the visionary who formed the original ‘Slayers' group of scientists in 2010 who then collaborated in creating the world's first full-volume debunk of the greenhouse gas theory plus their new follow-up book. John is an accredited academic and taught and lectured for over twenty years at schools and colleges in the east of England as well as successfully litigating for over a decade in the New York State courts and U.S. federal 2nd circuit. Blake Christian, a Partner at Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt joins us to talk about America's transition from Capitalism to Socialism and eventually Communism. Blake, a national Top 25 OZ influencer, is a tax partner at HCVT in Long Beach, California, and Park City, Utah. Blake has over 35 years of experience providing tax consulting and compliance services to clients that include multinational, publicly traded corporations, as well as closely held owner-managed businesses. He is a specialist in federal, state and local tax incentive programs, and is leading the firm's efforts in providing tax consulting services for Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs). Blake's industry experience is broad and includes manufacturing and distribution, service companies, restaurant, shipping and transportation, energy and health care. Asia Pacific Today, May 4, 2021

Through the American Jobs Plan and American Family Plan, the Biden Administration have put forward ideas for sizable government spending on physical and human infrastructure, financed in part by higher taxes on companies and households. This week’s episode focuses on the infrastructure part: what can investors expect moving forward?

On episode 107 Don and Office start this Friday recording by discussing whether or not America has been living under a totalitarian regime for the last 18 months (0:02:25) and what I would take to unite the country under that idea. A tangential rant fueled by the lies of Jen Psaki (0:40:00) about the coalition that could have been between BLM and the Boog Boys. The state of the union address given by President Biden last week including the new plans and policy that was laid out (0:59:00) like the American Family Plan and more details on the Jobs Plan, changes to the public education system and public welfare. A listener request, the ongoing audit of the 2020 election results in Arizona and what implications it could have for the county (2:21:00) AND the connections it could (and likely does) have to the expansion of The Supreme Court (2:35:00) and the recent proposal for the statehood of Washington D.C.  Our theme song is written, produced and recorded by Upper Left. All of our podcasts and the audio versions of our pre shows all originate on SoundCloud but can immediately thereafter be found ANYWHERE you can find a podcast. After we livestream the preshow on our Youtube Channel it joins all of our other videos on that same page. Subscribe, rate and review to help us get our name out there. T-shirts are available and can be purchased through our email or Facebook. $20 local and $25 shipped in the US. Subscribe, rate and review to help us get our name out there. After you rate and review us, send us a screenshot and you will get $5 OFF YOUR FIRST T SHIRT! If you would like to support the podcast in another way we have Venmo @SaltOfThe-Streets and CashApp @$saltofthestreets

Marking his first 100 days in office, President Biden unveiled the American Families Plan, which would extend free public education by four years through universal pre-K and free community college. It also invests in college access and affordability, training and diversifying the educator workforce, and school nutrition programs. Plus, all the details on the new application and guidance from the U.S. Department of Education to support states in spending funds under the American Rescue Plan equitably, including millions to support youth experiencing homelessness. Four More Years of Free Public Education Education is a cornerstone of President Biden’s proposed $1.8 trillion American Families Plan. When introducing the proposal, Biden argued that 12 years of public education—once a key driver of American progress and economic growth—is no longer sufficient to compete in the 21st century. At All4Ed, we couldn’t agree more. In her reaction to the plan, our President and CEO Deb Delisle said: The American Families Plan is a bold, sweeping investment in this country’s present and future. By expanding free public education by four years—two years of preschool and two years of college—the Biden administration is creating a clear path for all students to get the preparation needed to achieve their dream. If enacted, the American Families Plan would provide four more years of free public education by investing in both early childhood education and higher education. Through state partnerships and an infusion of $200 billion, it would provide high-quality, universal pre-K for all three-and four-year olds. The plan also includes $109 billion to pay for two years of community college for all students, including DREAMers. The American Family Plan makes other investments in higher education. For example, it adds $85 billion to the Pell Grant program to increase college affordability for low-income students. All4Ed was also encouraged to see that the plan includes a $62 billion grant program to invest in retention and completion activities at colleges and universities serving low-income students, including credit transfer agreements and evidence-based remediation programs. Additionally, the plan includes $46 billion for tuition assistance for students attending HBCUs and other minority serving institutions. The American Families Plan also addresses K–12 education through $9 billion for teacher training, with a priority on diversifying the teaching workforce through stronger pipelines for educators of color, an All4Ed priority. Finally, the plan provides $45 billion to expand school nutrition programs, including increasing the number of schools that can provide free meals to all of their students and making the summer EBT program permanent, which helps low-income families with children eligible for free school meals purchase food over the summer. The ambitious American Families Plan faces a long road to becoming law and will likely need to be reworked considerably to receive the votes necessary for passage in the House and Senate before it can reach President Biden’s desk. New Guidance for ARP Implementation Shifting gears, the Biden administration continues its work to help states and districts safely reopen schools and support students during the pandemic recovery. Last week, the U.S. Department of Education published the template states will use to access their remaining funds under the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) program. In March states received two-thirds of the $122 billion in ARP funding to help reopen K–12 schools and tackle learning loss. To receive the final third, however, states must submit a detailed implementation plan by June 7. In their plans, states will describe how they will implement evidence-based practices to meet students’ needs, including how they will use the specific set-asides in ARP for summer enrichment,

RenMac talks about the challenges facing the Fed in the months ahead with robust wages, inflation and GDP, what is in the American Family Plan, the increased competition between stocks and bonds given yield parity, sentiment and importance of market momentum, and the impact the Census outcome will have on mid-term elections

This week on "Off The Cuff," the group discusses President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress where he pitched his American Family Plan to lawmakers and the nation. Megan and Justin then break down all the details surrounding Biden's new proposal calling for tuition-free community college for all Americans and a significant boost to the maximum Pell Grant award. Jill also provides an update on when institutions should expect the next round of HEERF funds to be distributed. Plus, the group wants to know: When giving a personal pep talk, do you talk to yourself in first, second, or third person?

Our panel discusses President Biden’s American Family Plan which makes historic investments in paid leave, child care, and tax fairness, but misses an opportunity on prescription drug affordability. Senator Tammy Baldwin and other progressive U.S. Senators are urging President Biden to approve a COVID vaccine patent waiver so all counties can have access to COVID vaccines, while QAnon Ron Johnson spent the week disputing the effectiveness of masks in slowing the spread of COVID. We welcome Eric March from Wisconsin Cannabis Activists Network (WI CAN) to talk about marijuana reform organizing at the local level in Wisconsin. We close with organizer Karen Kirsch from the Citizen Action Healthcare for All Organizing Coop who joins us to discuss her new weekly facebook live talk show which focuses on healthcare policy, focusing on Medicare For All. The show debuts next Wednesday, May 5th, 7pm – 8pm.

This week Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco discuss the upcoming Biden Joint Session address not to be confused with the State of the Union Address, breakdown the administration’s American Family Plan, get into the ratfuck NY Post story about Kamala Harris and casually wish Rudy Giuliani ill. Plus, Sophie Ackoff co-executive director of the National Young Farmers Coalition stops by to discuss the importance of the farming industry and how we can foster a new generation of young diverse farmers. Then, Tien Tran and Julissa Arce join to talk about the new CDC mask guidelines and the impending anxiety around returning to the office. Finally Erin debunks the conservative non-fiction industrial book complex and other petty thoughts in I Feel Petty. Show Notes: National Young Farmers Coalition https://www.youngfarmers.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Legislative Ethics Committee adjourned and will resume tomorrow with a decision in the allegations against Representative Von Ehlinger. The American Family Plan is a plan proposed by President Biden that includes: free pre-school, free community college, and healthcare provisions. Do you think the government should be paying for pre-school and some higher education? (4/28/21)

“The U.S. is back!” That’s the message President Joe Biden will send today and Friday, per an administration official, as he hosts a virtual climate summit for 40 world leaders. Olivia Reingold is an editor-producer for POLITICO Audio.  Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio.  Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

The second part of the massive of spending bill is on deck, the “American Family Plan”.  How many more trillions? You know Bernie has his hand in this hand out… free childcare, free college...free from the responsibility of actually having to earn anything for yourself. Plus, Bernanke finally admits that he is a liar. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.