Nearly 30 sites offering free tax services across Chicago, suburbs SPRINGFIELD, Illinois–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2013. As the tax season gets into full swing, Governor Pat Quinn, the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) and the Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR) are urging eligible Illinois families to take advantage of tax preparation[Read More…]
Year: 2013
Alliance for Retired Americans: Sequester Leaves Seniors in the Cold
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2013. Across-the-board budget cuts that take effect today in the sequester will affect senior citizens across the country. The failure of the Senate to pass the American Family Economic Protection Act (S. 388), which would have raised revenue from the wealthiest Americans and corporations who send jobs[Read More…]
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…]
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…]
