1 in 4 catheter- and surgery-related HAIs caused by six resistant bacteria in long-term hospitals Protect Patients from Antibiotic Resistance Entire Infographic Atlanta, GA –(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2016. America is doing a better job of preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), but more work is needed – especially in fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria.[Read More…]
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Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending Feb. 27, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2016 SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending February 27, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 278,000, an increase of 6,000 from the previous week’s unrevised level of 272,000. The 4-week moving average was 270,250, a decrease of 1,750 from the previous week’s unrevised[Read More…]
More Productivity, No Payoff: New Center for American Progress Analysis Shows How Millennials’ Wages Have Barely Budged Beyond Baby Boomer and Generation X Levels
A woman checks a news website on her smartphone before boarding a train home at the end of her workweek in Chicago, March 2015. Source: AP/M. Spencer Green Washington, D.C. — (ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2016. More productivity, but no payoff: That’s the bottom line of a new analysis from the Center for[Read More…]
Tribe and Conservationists File Suit to Protect Wild Salmon, Rural River Communities
Groups Seek Alternatives to Flawed Forest Service Salvage Plan Happy Camp, Calif. –(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2016. Today the Karuk Tribe, along with the Environmental Protection Information Center, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Center for Biological Diversity, and Klamath Riverkeeper, filed suit in federal court challenging a massive post-fire logging plan in Klamath[Read More…]
Prize-winning Honduran Environmental Activist Murdered
WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2016. Last night assailants attacked and killed Berta Cáceres, an indigenous activist who earned the Goldman Prize in 2015 for her work stopping a dam project in Honduras. Cáceres co-founded the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, known as COPINH. She won a[Read More…]
Mitt Romney Makes the Case Against Donald Trump
UTAH–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2016. In a speech at the University of Utah, Mitt Romney referred to Donald Trump as a “phony” and a “fraud” and argued that his policies would lead to a recession. The full text of Romney’s remarks follows. I am not here to announce my candidacy for office.[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan: Former Grundy County Official Pleads Guilty to Theft
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a former Grundy County official pleaded guilty to theft for stealing $42,000 in county funds to spend on personal shopping trips, meals at restaurants and visits to hair and nail salons. Renae Chronister, 47, of Morris, was sentenced earlier today[Read More…]
Pennsylvania Priest Sentenced to 200 Months for Sexually Abusing Minors
PENNSYLVANIA–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2016. A priest of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 200 months in prison to be followed by lifetime supervised release for offenses related to his sexual abuse of two minor boys during trips to Honduras over a five-year period, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie[Read More…]
Minnesota Resident Pleads Guilty to Threatening Two Clinics that Provide Reproductive Health Services
MINNESOTA–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2016. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger of the District of Minnesota announced today that Michael John Harris, 33, pleaded guilty to making telephonic threats to two clinics that provide reproductive health services in[Read More…]
Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns to Houston after a Year in Space
Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA, right, is seen with (from left) NASA Administrator Charles Bolden; Dr. John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology; and Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, after returning to Houston on March 3, 2016, following his[Read More…]
