President Obama has signed into law a restriction on exporting cluster bombs that Senator Patrick Leahy wrote; advocates say the plan to turn our next week for a health care reform forum that Governor Jim Douglas is co-hosting; more federal stimulus money has been released to Vermont; the economy has helped temporarily defeat a New Hampshire historic site.
The statistics tell the story: More than 12% of the people living in the U.S. are foreign-born but in Vermont, the figure is only about 4%. Additionally minorities comprise only a small part of our population; 96% of are Caucasian.
As part of our Vermont in Transition series, VPR’s Jane Lindholm talks with author and commentator Tom Slayton and poet and playwright David Budbill about why Vermont is so homogeneous and how we feel about it.