Day: March 1, 2013

U.S. Department of Education Asks School Leaders to Initiate New Efforts to Reduce Gender-Based Violence

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2013.  The U.S. Department of Education yesterday issued a Dear Colleague letter to state school chiefs requesting immediate action to reduce gender-based violence in schools and to help ensure all students are safe. The letter and additional materials were released during a White House event on teen[Read More…]

United States: The Time has Come to Ban Landmines

Mine Ban Treaty Marks 14 Years Since Becoming International Law Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2013. The Obama administration, which is poised to make a decision on future US policy on landmines, should at long last embrace the ban on antipersonnel landmines on the Mine Ban Treaty’s 14th anniversary. “The United States[Read More…]

New Report: Outsized Political Influence of Wealthy and Corporate Interests Stack Deck Against Middle Class

New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2013. Yesterday, in the midst of Washington debates on the sequester and a minimum wage increase, national policy center Demos released a new paper that reveals the startling connection between political inequality and economic mobility:  As corporations and the donor class wield outsized influence through political[Read More…]

Sutter Vallejo Hospital Ordered to Stand Labor Board Trial

CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2013. The Sutter corporation’s Sutter Solano hospital in Vallejo has been ordered to stand trial on charges that it violated federal law in imposing immediate hundreds of dollars a month in higher healthcare costs for registered nurses, and, starting next year, eliminating all health coverage for nurses who[Read More…]

Florida State Lawmakers Will Consider Medical Marijuana Bill

TALLAHASSEE—(ENEWSPF)—March 1, 2013. State Sen. Jeff Clemens (D-Lake Worth) introduced a bill yesterday that would allow Floridians with debilitating medical conditions to legally obtain and use marijuana if their doctors recommend it. S.B. 1250, the Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act, would allow patients with certain qualifying medical conditions, or their[Read More…]

Scientists Warn of Sperm Count Declines Linked to Pesticide Exposure

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2013) In a literature review published in Toxicology last week, researchers found that environmental and occupational pesticide exposure was strongly associated with declines in sperm count. Researchers Sheena Martenies, BS, and Melissa Perry, ScD., MHS., determined that of the 17 studies evaluated, 15 of them reported significant[Read More…]

State Department Briefing by Patrick Ventrell, February 28, 2013

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 28, 2013. Index for Today’s Briefing SYRIA Secretary Kerry’s Announcement of Additional U.S. Nonlethal Support for the SOC / Reports of Massacre D.P.R.K. Dennis Rodman / North Korea’s Provocative Actions DEPARTMENT Issue of Sequester SYRIA Assad Regime / Opposition Coalition Reports a Massacre in Maalikiyah EGYPT U.S. Encourages[Read More…]

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