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…]
Day: March 1, 2013
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…]
Jobless Rates Down in 46 States in 2012; Employment-population Ratios Up in 26 States
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 1, 2013. In 2012, annual average unemployment rates declined in 46 states and the District of Columbia, rose in 2 states, and were unchanged in 2 states, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment-population ratios increased in 26 states and the District of Columbia, decreased in[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…]
Statement from President Obama on the Sequester, Feb. 28, 2013
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 28, 2013. Today, Republicans in the Senate faced a choice about how to grow our economy and reduce our deficit. And instead of closing a single tax loophole that benefits the well-off and well-connected, they chose to cut vital services for children, seniors, our men and women in[Read More…]
White House Press Briefing by Jay Carney, February 28, 2013
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 28, 2013 – 12:56 P.M. EST MR. CARNEY: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for being here. A couple of things I want to bring to your attention before I take your questions. First of all, you should have seen moments ago a statement from the President on[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…]