and this can be traced to the efforts of the trump administration to kill the aca but do other stuff administratively that hurts it. let s look at the specific types of people who get hurt by it. interestingly enough, the change in healthcare coverage among both whites and blacks, number of uninsured did go up just a little bit. but here s where the real differences are. the real differences are over in some other groups among hispanics, foreign born, and among incredibly among noncitizen children who s uninsured rate went from 15.6% to 18.3%. the trump administration and these are mainly people who are on medicaid. trump administration was able to use all kinds of administrative actions to curtail access to healthcare to these groups that they are targeting obviously in so many ways. to joe s earlier point, there s a strong storyline in terms for the democrats to what s happened to healthcare. but where i think we need to be also careful is what healthcare
the threat of drones endangering aircraft safety. security minister ben wallace did not offer specifics about the system but signaled military resources are being used to stop the growing number of drones in civilian airspace. gatwick airport, uk s second largest, was brought to a standstill for 36 hours last week after numerous drones were sighted close to its runways. let s check cnn business. global stocks rebounding from a christmas day route. the nikkei closed up nearly 1%. the shanghai closed down. hong kong, hang seng closed for a public holiday. the european markets also are closed. you see how they fared recently on wall street. futures are lower. the markets reopen today after closing on christmas. stocks on pace for the worst december since the great depression. here s the damage report the dow is down 15.6% this month. the s&p 500 down 15.7%. the nasdaq is down 16.7. they are all obviously lower for the year. and the s&p 500 now very near a
higher. markets reopen today after closing christmas. stocks on pace for their worst december since the great depression. the dow is now down 15.6% this month. the s&p 500 down a little bit more than that. the nasdaq down 16.7%. everything negative on the year. and the s&p 500 is now near a bear market. it s the thought that counts, of course, but what if you really don t want another reindeer sweater with jingle bells? according to the national retail federation, 17% of consumers will go to return or exchange unwanted gifts. 17%. some retailers have a no-questions-asked policy. others have strict rules that make returning purchases frustrating or impossible. what can you do to make those returns easier? don t open the box, especially for electronics. don t remove the packaging on a gift you don t want. you risk a restocking fee if packaging isn t exactly intact and if products are missing any tags. you may be stuck with them. keep the gift receipts. don t throw them out with the wra
really got unlocked. the one person you probably didn t want to push away is the guy who knows everything about you. the thing that my friend from moveon.org, democrats are sort of focused already on, is projecting forward. you will now have nancy pelosi the most powerful moment and also who might lead the party in 2020. move on did an interesting poll. one of the results of the 2018 midterm is that couple of names really sort of shot to the forefront. stacey abrams, andrew gillum. none of which won. and now on the minds of everyone is beto o rourke. who should be the 2020 nominee? don t know 29% which makes send. but look at beto, 15.6% now edging out joe biden. yeah, i think it says a lot.
off to the races. joe biden on top with 70% followed by bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, beto o rourke and cory booker rounding out top five. sanders taking a wait-and-see approach. when you take on wall street and take on the drug companies and take on the insurance companies, before i decide that i want to run, i got to make sure that there is grassroots support. that is what we re ascertaining, if there is, i will run. if not, i won t. council for the senatorial committee and dave brown senior advisor to senior patty murray, good to have you both here. of course you know, you can imagine that i m excited because another political season is almost already underway. you saw the fox news poll. dave, have you talk about this one, move on dot org, straw poll and beto o rourke coming in at 15.6%, topping the list. someone else, don t know at