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The surprising results of the 2016 election have been explained, in part, as a story of economic malaise. But a year after that election, the divergence between red and blue states has only grown -- leading some to question whether the booming economy can bring a divided nation back together. Are some of those divisions healing because the economy is doing super well It doesn t look like it, said Robin Brooks, managing director and chief economist at the Institute for International Finance.The Institute conducted a state-by-state analysis and found that red states -- those that voted for President Donald Trump in last year s election -- lag blue states in a key metric: the portion of residents who are in the labor force. water bottle stanley That measure, called the labor force participation rate, includes people who are looking for work as well as those who are working in any capacity. And it s been persistently low in the current economic recovery. In fact, it s lower than at any point since women entered the workforce en masse in the late 1970s. When the f stanley cup inancial crisis hit you had a ton of people basically exit the labor force, Brooks said. And while some of them have returned, they haven t returned equally. For blue states, people are getting crowded back into the labor force, but it s not happening for red states, he said. stanley taza Since 2014, we ve had a very strong labor market, the monthly pace of jobs cre Yrxn Powell Will Pass Baton To Rice
Updated at 11:17 p.m. ESTInvoking the name of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. They needed all 60 votes to avoid a filibuster which would have killed the bill, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Fuss. The 60-39 vote cleared the way for a bruising, full-scale debate beginning after Thanksgiving on the legislation, which is designed to exte stanley thermos nd coverage to roughly 31 million who lack it, crack down on insurance company practic stanley mug es that deny or dilute benefits and curtail the growth of spending on medical care nationally. The spectator galleries were full for the unusual Saturday night showdown, and applause broke out briefly when the vote was announced. In a measure of the significance of the moment, senators sat quietly in their seats, standing only when they were called upon to vote.In the final minutes of a daylong session, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., accused Republicans of trying stanley trinkflaschen to stifle a historic debate the nation needed. Imagine if, instead of debating whether to abolish slavery, instead of debating whether giving women and minorities the right to vote, those who disagreed had muted discussion and killed any vote, he said.The Republican leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said the vote was anything but procedural 151; casting it as |
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