Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2015. Today, President Obama announced his Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Budget. The Budget details the President’s spending plan for implementing the agenda he laid out in his State of the Union address to invest in America’s future. This plan involves robust investments in research and development (R&D)[Read More…]
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Michigan: Voters Prefer Regulating Marijuana To Increase Tax Revenue
Flint, MI–(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2015. The majority of Michigan voters prefer regulating and taxing marijuana commerce to pay for roads and schools as opposed to raising the state’s sales tax one percent, according to polling data released last week by Survey USA. Sixty-four percent of respondents endorsed regulating cannabis like alcohol[Read More…]
New Report Reveals Nearly 40 Percent of NHS Highways Fail to Pay for Themselves, Urges More Flexible Funding Model to Support a Multimodal Transportation System
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2015. A new infrastructure report from the Center for American Progress examines the myth that highways pay for themselves while public transportation does not, and reveals that 40 percent of all National Highway System, or NHS, miles fail to generate sufficient user fee revenues to cover[Read More…]
New Center for American Progress Report Proposes National Subsidized Jobs Program to Improve Employment Opportunities for All Americans
Washington, D.C. — (ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2015. Although overall unemployment in the United States has fallen in recent years, certain populations continue to suffer disproportionate rates of unemployment, including older workers, the long-term unemployed, people with criminal records, people with disabilities, and people with limited education or work experience. These workers[Read More…]
Study: Livestock Grazing on Public Lands Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion Over Past Decade
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2015. A new analysis finds U.S. taxpayers have lost more than $1 billion over the past decade on a program that allows cows and sheep to graze on public land. Last year alone taxpayers lost $125 million in grazing subsidies on federal land. Had the federal government charged[Read More…]
World Report 2015: Rights Aren’t Wrong in Tough Times
Human Rights a Path Out of Crisis and Chaos Displaced people from the Yezidi sect, fleeing violence from forces linked to the extremist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, walk towards the Syrian border in August 2014. © 2014 Reuters Beirut –-(ENEWSPF)–January[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Analysis Shows High Levels of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports Could Hurt Consumers
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. With Congress poised to consider legislation to expedite exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, the Center for American Progress released a new analysis of the potential impact of high levels of LNG exports on consumers’ natural gas bills in regions across the country. In[Read More…]
New Reforms: Former Church Committee Staff Members Recommend Key Changes to Intelligence Oversight
New York, NY –(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Today, on the 40th anniversary of the formation of the Church Committee, 17 former Church Committee staff members put forward key reforms to help Congress rein in intelligence abuses and repair weakened oversight structures in a new report out today. “The 40th anniversary of the[Read More…]
Union Membership Rate in 2014 is 11.1 Percent, Down From 11.3 Percent in 2013
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 23, 2015. In 2014, the union membership rate–the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions–was 11.1 percent, down 0.2 percentage point from 2013, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.6 million,[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Report Calls for Egypt and the United States to Make a Major Course Correction in Bilateral Relations
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2015. Four years after Egypt’s revolution, the region’s most populous country represents a central test in the broader battle for stability and progress in the Middle East. The bilateral relationship between the United States and Egypt has drifted apart. The two countries should use the proposed[Read More…]
