CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013. Students from Roosevelt University’s Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate won the 2013 Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation (HEEF) Midwest Real Estate Challenge, which took place on April 6 at The Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth Ct., Chicago. Seven other schools competed in this third Eisenberg Challenge[Read More…]
Year: 2013
Project Soapbox Forum Helps Chicago Middle Schoolers Find Their Voice
Chicago middle schoolers work on a root cause analysis of a speech topic. Photo by Jasmine Armand CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013. Fourteen-year-old South Shore resident Shakira Nunnally knows gun violence firsthand. She has lost five close friends and saw eight teens gunned down while walking home from the store with her[Read More…]
Congresswoman Duckworth Calls for Equality in the Workplace on Equal Pay Day
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013. Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth released the following statement on Equal Pay Day: Equal Pay Day is an opportunity for all Americans to speak out against the pay inequity that exists in our country. The fact that women only make $.77 on the dollar nationally not only hurts[Read More…]
New Genetic Link Found Between Normal Fetal Growth and Cancer
NIH study identifies a protein that helps trigger both processes Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013. Two researchers at the National Institutes of Health discovered a new genetic link between the rapid growth of healthy fetuses and the uncontrolled cell division in cancer. The findings shed light on normal development and on[Read More…]
Chicago’s Project Coordination Office Enters Second Construction Season in Partnership with Utilities
City Saved and Reinvested $10 Million in 2012 After Mayor Emanuel Directed Reform Aimed at Eliminating Duplicative Work; Plans for More Savings in 2013 CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013. Mayor Emanuel announced yesterday that the City of Chicago’s Project Coordination Office (PCO) will enter a second construction season with the purpose of[Read More…]
Planned Parenthood, Women’s Health Advocates Submit Nearly 350,000 Comments in Support of ACA Birth Control Benefit
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 8, 2013. Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards announced today’s submission of nearly 350,000 comments to the Department of Health and Human Services in support of the Affordable Care Act’s birth control benefit generated by a coalition of women’s health and advocacy groups including Planned Parenthood Federation[Read More…]
Great Beer Needs Clean Water: NRDC Partners with Craft Brewers to Protect the Clean Water Act
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013 – It takes great water to make great beer, so the Natural Resources Defense Council is teaming up with nearly two dozen nationally-respected craft brewers to launch a campaign today advocating for strong clean water policies. The craft brewing industry—makers of beloved brews, small business entrepreneurs and[Read More…]
No Grand Bargain; Elderly Women Hit Hardest
Nurses Warn: Cuts Would Do Serious Harm in Communities Already Hurting Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013. The largest U.S. organization of registered nurses, National Nurses United (NNU), issued its strongest warning yesterday: Cuts in Social Security and Medicare would do harm to America’s elderly and disabled, vulnerable populations whose resources[Read More…]
Retired Star Found with Planets and Debris Disc
Dust disc around Kappa Coronae Borealis EU–(ENEWSPF)–9 April 2013. ESA’s Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt – produced by colliding comets or asteroids – orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary system. After billions of years steadily burning hydrogen in their cores,[Read More…]
Job openings increase from 3.6 to 3.9 million in February, 2013
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 9, 2013. There were 3.9 million job openings on the last business day of February, up from 3.6 million in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The hires rate (3.3 percent) and separations rate (3.1 percent) were little changed in February. This release includes estimates[Read More…]
