Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2015. Seizures of indoor and outdoor cannabis crops by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) held steady in 2014, but remain well below totals from just five years ago. According to the DEA’s Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Statistical Report, agents eradicated some 4.3 million marijuana plants in 2014.[Read More…]
Analysis
Study on Cook County Juvenile Court Recommends Shift in Priorities
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2015. A comprehensive needs assessment of the Cook County Juvenile Court system finds a groundswell of support is growing for keeping kids out of a system that most believe is broken and ineffective. The study commissioned by Cook County Justice for Children (CCJC) and conducted by Roosevelt University’s[Read More…]
New Report Provides Comprehensive Data on Marijuana Arrests and Charges in Colorado After Legal Regulation for Adult Use
Marijuana Possession Charges Decrease From 30,000+ in 2010 to Less Than 2,000 in 2014 COLORAD—(ENEWSPF)—March 25, 2015. All eyes are on Colorado to gauge the impact of the country’s first-ever state law to tax and regulate the sale of marijuana to adults 21 and older. Since the first retail marijuana[Read More…]
New Center for American Progress Fact Sheets Explore Economic Benefits of Reducing Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Individual States
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2015. It is no secret that, in a few decades, the face of the United States will look different than it does today. The nation’s racial and ethnic makeup is changing by the day, and the U.S. Census projects that the majority of the country’s population will[Read More…]
The Deadly Lunatics: Identifying Terrorists in the Modern World (Video)
Commentary By Gary Kopycinski Who are the terrorists? After teaching a World Religions course for a number of years, it became increasingly important for me to research the role of terrorism in the world, and, in particular, who are these people who identify as terrorists? When members of the faux[Read More…]
With Medicare Payment Reform Gauntlet Laid, Center for American Progress Releases Recommendations to Reach Goal of 50 Percent from Alternate Models by 2018
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–February 26, 2015. Last month, Health and Human Services, or HHS, Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, announced specific goals for payment reform in Medicare. Most importantly, Secretary Burwell set a goal that 50 percent of fee-for-service Medicare payments be made[Read More…]
New Report Maps the Demographic Evolution of the American Electorate from 1974 to 2060
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2015. Today, the Center for American Progress; the American Enterprise Institute, or AEI; and demographer William H. Frey of the Brookings Institution released a new report containing results from a groundbreaking collaboration between the organizations, the States of Change: Demographics and Democracy project. The report, “States[Read More…]
New Report Shows Lender Abuses and Feeble Enforcement Cause Minority Homeowners to Lose Homes
NEW YORK —(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2015. The American Civil Liberties Union and MFY Legal Services today released a report indicating that homeowners in communities of color are at greater risk of losing their homes due to loan servicers’ modification failures, with lax response from government regulators. “Here We Go Again: Communities of Color,[Read More…]
Risk Assessment Study: Cannabis’ Purported Dangers Have Been ‘Overestimated’
Dresden, Germany–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2015. Health risks associated with the use of cannabis have likely been “overestimated” while the dangers associated with the consumption of alcohol “have been commonly underestimated,” according to the findings of risk assessment study published in the journal Nature: Scientific Reports. An international team of investigators from[Read More…]
For First Time, Supermajority of Americans Support the Freedom to Marry as Constitutional Right
New York –(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2015. The highest percentage ever of Americans – a 63% supermajority – now back the freedom to marry as a constitutional right for gay couples, according to the latest CNN/ORC poll. This is up 14 percentage points from 2010, with significant increases by both Republicans and Democrats.[Read More…]
