Government Spying Undermines Media Freedom and Right to Counsel, ACLU-Human Rights Watch Shows WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2014.  Large-scale U.S. surveillance is seriously hampering U.S.-based journalists and lawyers in their work, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch said in a joint report released today. Surveillance is undermining media freedom[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 22, 2014.  Today, the Center for American Progress released a report highlighting the impact of native mascots and team names on American Indian and Alaska Native, or AI/AN, youth and proposed key steps that federal, state, and local governments can take to address these effects. The report explores[Read More…]

Denver, CO-(ENEWSPF)- More than six out of ten Americans – including majorities of self-identified Democrats, Independents, and Republicans – support the regulation and retail sale of marijuana in Colorado, according to the findings of a nationwide HuffPost.com/YouGov poll released on Tuesday. Colorado voters in 2012 approved a statewide initiative legalizing the personal[Read More…]

Los Angeles, CA-(ENEWSPF)- The majority of Americans age 18 to 29 oppose the federal prohibition of marijuana, according to national polling datacompiled by the Reason Foundation. Fifty-seven percent of those polled said that the US government should "allow" for adults to use marijuana. Thirty-nine percent of respondents said that marijuana use[Read More…]

Helps Formerly Incarcerated Seal Conviction Records, Eliminates Barriers to Employment, Public Assistance, and Re-Entry Drug Policy Alliance: Criminal Justice Reform is Good Policy and Good Politics Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rand Paul (R-KY), introduced the REDEEM Act, groundbreaking bipartisan legislation that makes it easier for formerly incarcerated individuals[Read More…]

Courtesy of: Infographic World From our friends at Infographic World, Where Does Gitmo Fit In? The Long, Winding History Of Prison Camps.

Joseph Schwieterman, director of the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, has co-authored a new study on the use of electronic devices on intercity buses, planes and trains. (Photo by Jeff Carrion) CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—July 3, 2014. A new study by DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development raises doubts about whether the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 1, 2014.  On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. to grant religious liberty protections to for-profit corporations, allowing the religious beliefs of the owners of for-profit, secular corporations to be used as justification to deny their employees the contraceptive health coverage that they are entitled to[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 26, 2014.  A pair of reports released today by the Center for American Progress show that the chief financial officer, or CFO, is playing an increasingly important role in America’s public schools. However, the new research also suggests that CFOs might not be up to all of the[Read More…]