Daily Clips: May 16, 2017
The tech sector is leaving the rest of the US economy in its dust
Exclusive: Democrats in U.S. Senate try to slow Republican deregulation
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat, on Tuesday will introduce legislation to kill the Congressional Review Act (CRA), a law Republicans used over the span of three months this year to repeal 14 regulations enacted by former President Barack Obama, also a Democrat, according to documents seen by Reuters.
McConnell’s Plea: ‘Less Drama’ From the White House
Extreme Gerrymandering Complicates 2018 Congressional Map for Democrats
Center for American Progress wonders what went wrong in 2016:
We do not yet know the exact reasons for the drop in turnout among young people and black voters. But with President Obama not on the ticket to drive voter enthusiasm, it is quite possible that lingering job and wage pressures in more urban areas with lots of young people, and in areas with large populations of African-Americans, yielded similar, if distinct, economic anxiety in ways that may have depressed voter turnout among base progressives. The combined effect of economic anxiety may have been to drive white noncollege voters toward Trump and to drive down voter engagement and participation among base progressives.
