It is up to the federal government to make sure America embraces rapid technological change in a way that is “positive for as many of our citizens as possible,” said Rep. John Delaney (D-MD).
In an interview with Cheddar, the Congressman said he doesn’t believe such progress is a threat to the labor market.
“Innovation generally creates more jobs than it displaces,” said Delaney. “But the problem is oftentimes the jobs that get created by innovation are not located in the same places where the jobs that were displaced are located.”
He pointed out that 80 percent of venture capital in this country goes to just California, New York, and Boston, which means that innovation and job creation is highly concentrated in and around those places.
“I think that will continue unless policymakers do things to make sure more of our country has the opportunity to have people invest in their communities and kind of benefit from this innovation.”
Delaney founded the A.I. Caucus to do just that. Comprised of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, the group strives to work with the private sector to come up with policy ideas that can help the country keep up with technological change.
“I just want to make sure we don’t leave huge parts of the country behind,” he said.
In the aftermath of earthquakes, one of the U.S. territory’s top architects is making the case for short-term assistance combined with long-term vision.
When President Bill Clinton was impeached more than 20 years ago, the Senate leaders who controlled his fate say they sought to appear neutral and separate from the White House and wanted to make the trial a bipartisan process. At least that’s how Trent Lott and Tom Daschle remember it today.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Facebook’s behavior “shameful” during her weekly press conference Thursday.
The federal government's watchdog agency said Thursday a White House office violated federal law in withholding security assistance to Ukraine.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Thursday, January 16, 2020.
The House delivered the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate Wednesday hours after Speaker Nancy Pelosi named seven managers to handle prosecute the trial.
“[Trump] would win right now because the Democrats have not succeeded in making this election a referendum on Trump,” longtime Republican and political strategist Rick Wilson told Cheddar on the eve of another sort of referendum — the president’s impeachment trial.
President Trump signed a so-called "phase one" trade deal with China on Wednesday, signaling a détente in a protracted trade war that resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs being exchanged on exports between the world's two largest economies over the better part of two years.
Weeks after the White House unexpectedly derailed a bipartisan tax deal for electric vehicles, offshore wind energy, and other major green priorities, dozens of emissaries from the nation’s renewable energy industries and environmental advocacy groups are gathering in the nation’s capital to begin charting their green-energy push for 2020 — and to dissect what went wrong in the final hours of its 2019 influence campaign.
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