Pittsburgh –(ENEWSPF)–April 27, 2016. Local labor and community organizations, including the Pittsburgh Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), Casa San José, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), United Steelworkers Local 3657, the Human Rights City Alliance, the ANSWER Coalition, the Thomas Merton Center, the Coalition OF Labor Union[Read More…]
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Unveils Student Loan ‘Payback Playbook’ to Provide Borrowers with Personalized Snapshot of Repayment Options
Prototype Disclosures Outline Path to Affordable Payments for Borrowers Trying to Avoid Debt Distress WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–April 27, 2016. Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unveiled the student loan Payback Playbook, a set of prototype disclosures that outline a path to affordable payments for borrowers trying to avoid[Read More…]
NOW: ‘Deal Me In’
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 27, 2016. Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill: Donald Trump is doubling down on his gender-based attacks on Hillary Clinton, charging that Secretary Clinton doesn’t have the “strength” or “stamina” to be President. And after winning last night’s primaries, Trump said, “If Hillary Clinton were a man, I[Read More…]
Financial Experts and Social Service Providers Challenge State, Municipal, and Chicago Public Schools Payments to Wall Street Banks
Chicago, IL –(ENEWSPF)–April 27, 2016. On Wednesday, a set of financial experts and social service providers gave testimony before the Illinois House Revenue and Finance Committee detailing how Wall Street banks have soaked all levels of government in Illinois for hundreds of millions of dollars through interest rate swaps and[Read More…]
Providing Storage to Ease the Way for Youth Experiencing Homelessness
CHICAGO, IL –(ENEWSPF)–April 27. 2016. Imagine trying to get to work or school or a doctor’s appointment while carrying everything that matters to you. Now add some of Chicago’s extreme weather elements and one has a sense of what young people experiencing homelessness navigate. Left with unreliable or infrequent[Read More…]
Cosmic Beacons Reveal the Milky Way’s Ancient Core
Potsdam, Germany-(ENEWSPF)- An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany and Dr. R. Michael Rich of UCLA has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars. These stars[Read More…]
Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan (Watch)
Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Of the hundreds of moons in our solar system, Titan is the only one with a dense atmosphere and large liquid reservoirs on its surface, making it in some ways more like a terrestrial planet. Both Earth and Titan have nitrogen-dominated atmospheres — over 95 percent nitrogen in[Read More…]
Four Lasers Over Paranal: First light for the Four Laser Guide Star Facility on ESO’s Very Large Telescope
European Southern Observatory-(ENEWSPF)- On 26 April 2016 ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile hosted an event to mark the first light for the four powerful lasers that form a crucial part of the adaptive optics systems on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Attendees were treated to a spectacular display of cutting-edge laser technology[Read More…]
Profile of a Methane Sea on Titan
ESA-(ENEWSPF)- Saturn’s largest moon is covered in seas and lakes of liquid hydrocarbons – and one sea has now been found to be filled with pure methane, with a seabed covered by a sludge of organic-rich material, and possibly surrounded by wetlands. Of all the moons in the Solar System,[Read More…]
Curiosity Mars Rover Crosses Rugged Plateau
Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has nearly finished crossing a stretch of the most rugged and difficult-to-navigate terrain encountered during the mission’s 44 months on Mars. The rover climbed onto the “Naukluft Plateau” of lower Mount Sharp in early March after spending several weeks investigating sand dunes. The plateau’s sandstone[Read More…]
