Your cheat sheet to the issues that could come up in the presidential debate Taxes: Donald Trump wants to cut income tax rates while capping deductions for the wealthy, reduce the business tax rate and eliminate the estate tax.<br />Hillary Clinton would raise taxes on the wealthy, limit the value of certain deductions and increase the estate tax and make more people pay it.<br />Jobs: Trump's plan includes the growth-power of tax cuts, reducing regulations, scrapping the Paris Climate Agreement, expanding childcare options, and cracking down on crime.<br />Clinton proposed $275 billion in infrastructure spending over five years, small-business tax cuts, investment in solar panels, and scientific research.<br />Wages: Last week, we learned median family income finally rose last year — by 5.2 percent, the first real increase since the Great Recession.<br />All races saw gains last year, with Hispanics seeing a 6.1 percent increase, whites 4.4 percent, and African Americans 4.1 percent.<br />Poverty: The poverty rate fell 1.2 percentage points, or 3.5 million people, to 13.5 percent in 2015.<br />Still, 43.1 million Americans were living in poverty.<br />In Obama's first year in office, the poverty rate was 14.3 percent.<br />It peaked at 15.1 percent in 2010.<br />Trade: In 2015, the U.S. had a trade deficit with the rest of the world of $746 billion.<br />Much of that deficit is with one country — China.<br />The trade deficit is on pace to shrink, slightly this year.<br />Military: Both Clinton and Trump want to lift the caps imposed on military spending by the Budget Control Act of 2011.<br />Clinton wants to lift the corresponding caps on domestic spending, whereas Trump wants additional cuts in domestic spending to help offset the cost of his military buildup.<br />Immigration: The Border Patrol doubled in size since 9/11 to more than 21,000.<br />Trump has proposed adding about 5,000 more.<br />The number of immigrants in the U.S. illegally was about 11.1 million, as of 2014.<br />That number has stabilized, per Pew, since the end of the Great Recession.
