Project Also Finds Savings Persist After Offers End WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2016. Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released the results of a Project Catalyst research project finding that offering a small incentive to prepaid card users to put some of their money into a savings “wallet” doubled[Read More…]
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Sierra Club Releases Interactive #ToxicTrade Map
Trans-Pacific and Transatlantic Trade Deals Would Empower World’s Largest Polluters WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2016. After trade took center stage in the first presidential debate earlier this week, the Sierra Club today released a new map that reveals the coast-to-coast environmental threats of two pending trade deals — the[Read More…]
U.S. Department of Labor Announces Final Rule Requiring Federal Contractors to Provide Workers Access to Paid Sick Leave
More than 1M working families to benefit from 56 hours annually WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2016. The U.S. Department of Labor announced a final rule today requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave to employees who work on or in connection with certain federal contracts. The rule will allow these[Read More…]
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending September 24, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWPF)–September 29, 2016. SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending September 24, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 254,000, an increase of 3,000 from the previous week’s revised level. The previous week’s level was revised down by 1,000 from 252,000 to 251,000. The 4-week moving average[Read More…]
Ahead of 40th Anniversary of Hyde Amendment, Center for American Progress Calls for Policymakers to Repeal Hyde and Reject Similar Restrictions on Abortion
Abortion advocates celebrate during a rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 27, 2016. Source: AP/EvanVucci Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2016. Forty years ago this Friday, lawmakers passed the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits Medicaid from covering abortion care, except in limited cases of rape, incest, or if[Read More…]
Secretary of Defense Carter: 600 Troops to Deploy to Enable Iraqis to Retake Mosul From ISIL
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 28, 2016 By: Terri Moon Cronk About 600 American troops will be deployed to Iraq to further enable local security forces as they prepare to retake the key Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said today. Army Lt.[Read More…]
Olive Garden, Darden Restaurants Under Investor Pressure to Ditch Routine Antibiotics
ORLANDO, Fla. —(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2016. Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI), the nation’s largest restaurant company and owner of Olive Garden, is facing pressure from investors today at its annual shareholder meeting to eliminate the routine use of antibiotics in its supply chain, a practice that can fuel the spread of[Read More…]
Kenk’s Amphipod Moves Closer to Endangered Species Act Protection
Tiny Crustacean Threatened by Water Pollution, Pesticides Would Be Second Endangered Species Found in Nation’s Capital Photo by Irina Sereg, NPS. WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2016. In accordance with an agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity that speeds protection decisions for 757 species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed[Read More…]
Lawsuit Launched to Stop Destruction of California Spotted Owl Habitat in Mature Forests in Sierra Nevada
California spotted owl photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service. OAKLAND, Calif.— (ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2016. The Center for Biological Diversity and Earth Island Institute today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service to halt the logging of critical California spotted owl habitat on the Tahoe National Forest. Six owl territories are[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan: Convicted Sex Offender Ruled Sexually Violent
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that a DuPage County jury has found that a registered sex offender is a Sexually Violent Person (SVP) following a one-day trial. DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Paul M. Fullerton ruled that Lawrence Schauer, 63, of Hillside, Ill., must[Read More…]
