12pm ET: Competing tax policies, schools face budget cuts, breakdancing backlash and more
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12pm ET: Competing tax policies, schools face budget cuts, breakdancing backlash and more CNN 5 Things 16 August 2024
We’ll discuss some of the economic policy plans Vice President Kamala Harris will unveil today and compare them to those of former President Donald Trump. Russia appears to be pulling troops from key battlefields to fend off Ukraine’s surprise incursion. The U.S. is experiencing a Covid-19 surge in the summer. Schools are facing budget cuts as some pandemic funding expires. Plus, we hear about the Olympic breakdancer who went viral for all the wrong reasons.
