Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 5, 2016.  Gun violence has taken a heartbreaking toll on too many communities across the country.  Over the past decade in America, more than 100,000 people have been killed as a result of gun violence—and millions more have been the victim of assaults, robberies, and other crimes involving[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 4, 2016 – 12:58 P.M. EST MR. EARNEST:  Good afternoon, everybody.  Welcome back.  I’m glad the New Year has you in a good spirit and you can join in some ribbing of some of my more tanned colleagues.  (Laughter.)  I don’t see too many tans out in the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 4, 2016.  The Department of Justice, on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), today filed a civil complaint in federal court in Detroit, Michigan, against Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Volkswagen Group of America Inc., Volkswagen Group of America Chattanooga Operations LLC, Porsche AG and Porsche Cars North[Read More…]

IOWA–(ENEWSPF)–January 4, 2016.  At a town hall meeting in Davenport, Iowa, Hillary Clinton today warned about a new Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act scheduled to occur later this week. Since 2011, House Republicans have voted more than 50 times to repeal or dismantle the Affordable Care Act.[Read More…]

NEW HAMPSHIRE—(ENEWSPF)—January 4, 2016. Hillary Clinton, who is campaigning in New Hampshire, today applauded President Obama’s soon-to-be-announced executive action that would strengthen background checks and make it harder for dealers to sell guns to criminals. But Clinton warned how the progress made by this executive order would be reversed if[Read More…]

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—January 3, 2016. As of this weekend, new laws going into effect in Oregon and California mean that residents there will be automatically registered to vote when they get a driver’s license. In her campaign, Hillary Clinton has called for universal voter registration, where every citizen in every state[Read More…]

$37 Million for Primary Campaign, $18 Million for Democratic Party NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 1, 2016.  Thanks to the support of hundreds of thousands of people across the country, Hillary for America set a new record for the best off-year fundraising of any non-incumbent in history.  At the beginning of this campaign,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 1, 2016 Happy New Year, everybody. I am fired up for the year that stretches out before us. That’s because of what we’ve accomplished together over the past seven. Seven years ago, our businesses were losing 800,000 jobs a month. They’ve now created jobs for 69 straight months,[Read More…]

Source: UN in collaboration with Project Everyone NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–31 December 2015 – As 2015 comes to an end, and with it the 15-year cycle of the anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the United Nations officially will usher in – on 1 January 2016 – an even more ambitious set of[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 31, 2015 SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending December 26, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 287,000, an increase of 20,000 from the previous week’s unrevised level of 267,000. The 4-week moving average was 277,000, an increase of 4,500 from the previous week’s unrevised[Read More…]