Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 2, 2014. Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and around the country have grabbed the attention of the nation and the world, and have highlighted the importance of strong, collaborative relationships between local police and the communities that they protect. Today, the Administration announced new steps we’re taking to strengthen[Read More…]
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One Strike and You’re Out: New CAP Report Offers Road Map to Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security and Mobility for People with Criminal Records
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2014. As many as one in three Americans have some type of criminal record. Yet having any kind of criminal history—even for minor offenses or an arrest without a conviction—can create lifelong barriers that can stand in the way of basic necessities such as employment[Read More…]
Ambulatory Health Care Services Receipts and Employment on the Upswing, According to Census Bureau’s Economic Census
Download Patient Personnel [JPG – <1.0 MB] Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 25, 2014. Receipts for the nation’s 582,733 ambulatory health care services establishments (NAICS 621) totaled $825.7 billion in 2012, up 23.5 percent from $668.5 billion in 2007, according to the latest economic census statistics released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. [Read More…]
Tiffany and Signet Lead Jewelry World, ‘Getting Engaged’ on Congo Gold
New Review Announces Top Jewelers Supporting Conflict-Free Gold Trade; Holiday Season ‘Jewelry Leaders Review’ Offers Shoppers Way to Support Peace in Mining Communities in Congo Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014 — Two giants of the jewelry world, Signet Jewelers (parent company of jewelry retailers Zales®, Jared®, and Kay®) and Tiffany & Co.,[Read More…]
New Study Outlines Ways to Better Help Youths in Juvenile Justice System
Photo above is by photographer Richard Ross, whose Juvenile in Justice documentary collection was exhibited at a Roosevelt University Gage Gallery show co-sponsored by the Mansfield Institute in 2012. CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. The Cook County Juvenile Justice system needs to get smarter about the way it handles adjudication of young people, a[Read More…]
Overwhelming Majority of Americans Say Supreme Court Should Side with Employee Who Was Denied Reasonable Accommodations During Pregnancy
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in the pregnancy discrimination case Young v. United Parcel Service, a new poll released today finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans—79 percent—believe that the Supreme Court should side with Peggy Young. Young, a former United Parcel Service, or UPS, driver,[Read More…]
New Post-Election Poll Shows Battleground Voters Want Action to Tackle the Climate Crisis
Survey Shows Strong Support for Clean Energy and the Clean Power Plan Washington, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2014. Today, the Sierra Club released the results of a new post-election poll conducted by Hart Research Associates showing that, regardless of whom they supported, voters in six key states in the 2014 midterm[Read More…]
White House Fact Sheet: The Economic Benefits of Fixing Our Broken Immigration System
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2014. The President’s Immigration Accountability Executive actions will help secure the border, hold nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants accountable and ensure that everyone plays by the same rules. Acting within his legal authority, the President is taking an important step to fix our broken immigration system. These[Read More…]
Congressional Research Service Publishes Report On Federal Government Taxing Marijuana
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 20, 2014. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a comprehensive thirty five-page report last week examining the federal government establishing a wholesale excise tax on the production and sale of cannabis-related products. In what is one of the most comprehensive policy and fiscal reviews to date of how[Read More…]
Analysis of Overloaded U.S. Immigration Court System Shows Essential Need to Address Enforcement Overdrive
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–November 20, 2014. While President Barack Obama finalizes plans to take executive action on immigration and provide relief to a portion of the nation’s undocumented immigrant population, enforcement overdrive and paltry resources for the immigration court system have caused a significant backlog of cases waiting to be heard. New[Read More…]
