Centrists and progressives remain at odds over social spending. Plus Daniel Craig on Bond, fried eggs, and regrets
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Democrats will return to the negotiating table on Friday morning after reaching an impasse over Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, with Nancy Pelosi delaying a planned vote, as legislative and fiscal deadlines loom.
What’s in the social spending plan? The $3.5tn proposal would extend the child tax credit, establish universal pre-K education, and create a federally paid family and medical leave system. It would also establish a number of programs to fight the climate crisis and propel the country toward renewable energy.
Why are moderates holding out? Manchin, who is a major recipient of donations from the fossil fuel industry, has described the $3.5tn package as “fiscal insanity” and said he will not support a package that cost more than $1.5tn. He said a budget any bigger risks “changing our whole society to an entitlement mentality”.
Is there racial disparity? Yes. Almost 60% of all all fatal police encounters involving Black Americans were misclassified, while the government’s database missed around half of police-involved deaths of Hispanic people, 56% of police-involved deaths of non-Hispanic white people, and a third of deaths involving non-Hispanic people across other races.
How did researchers reach these figures? They compared data from the US National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), a government database for tracking the US population, with non-governmental, open-source databases that monitor police violence.