NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Despite a growing pool of potential Hispanic voters in the United States, driven largely by young people, Latinos are likely to be underrepresented at the polls in 2016, a study released Tuesday has found.
The Pew Research Center found that a record number of Hispanic voters could head to the polls in November, topping the 11.2 million who voted in 2012, but that Hispanic millennials — who are driving growth in the population of Hispanic eligible voters_will keep turnout low. A majority of Hispanics, 52 percent, are too young to vote or are not U.S. citizens.
BOSTON — Advocates in favor of lifting the legislative cap on the number of charter schools allowed to operate in Massachusetts swarmed Beacon Hill on Tuesday to lobby lawmakers and received an assist from Gov. Charlie Baker in the process.
Clutching an oversized binder stuffed with the signatures of 25,000 urging state pols to pass legislation removing the charter school cap, Baker addressed a crowd of advocates and later signed a ceremonial banner the group toted to the State House and unfurled inside Nurses' Hall.
