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In an executive order to be signed on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, the President aims to make it more difficult for companies to hire foreign technology workers in an attempt to keep those jobs for American workers.
Expectations from the industry, however, suggest that this will badly damage the American technology sector. According to Robert Atkinson of the Information Technology Innovation Foundation:
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This is another post in our Budget Cuts Series which is an examination of White House proposed budget cuts to learn what's hidden beneath the surface. We will later update based on Congressional budget proposals and actions.
The budget plan... calls for the elimination of four independent cultural agencies — the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting...
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In late March with little notice, Trump signed an executive order to revoke the 2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order President Obama put in place to ensure that companies with federal contracts comply with 14 labor and civil rights laws. The 2014 order was an attempt to keep the worst violators from receiving taxpayer dollars
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In SmartDissent's Budget Cuts Series, we are detailing many of the White House proposed budget cuts. A prime eample of the importance of this series in the proposed impacts to the Environmental Protection Agency. We seek to learn and share what's hidden beneath the surface. While climate change denial and associated concerns have dominated the discussion of the massive funding cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency, far more is at stake in a variety of ways.
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A federal court in Texas has again ruled the state’s 2011 voter identification law intentionally discriminated against minorities.
Judge Nelva Ramos Gonzales ruled that the law “was passed, at least in part, with a discriminatory intent in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.”
Texas claimed the law was necessary to combat in-person voter fraud, however Judge Ramos reminded the State what ought to be well known by now - there is no evidence of such fraud.