Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 10, 2014.  At an event featuring Small Business Administration Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet, the Center for American Progress today released a new report exploring how women of color are a principal force within the U.S. entrepreneurship community and how their success is vital to the U.S. economy. The report[Read More…]

Report Shows Federal Bureau of Prisons Incentivizes Mistreatment, Shields Immigrant Prisons from Scrutiny NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–June 10, 2014.  Today the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Texas released the report Warehoused and Forgotten: Immigrants Trapped in Our Shadow Private Prison Industry, a devastating look into the secretive “Criminal Alien[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 9, 2014. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) has released their new report, “The DEA: Four Decades of Impeding and Rejecting Science.” The report – which is being made available today – documents a decades-long pattern of systematically obstructing medical research[Read More…]

New Data Shows Renewables, Energy Efficiency Could Dramatically Lower Emissions WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—June 2, 2014 – In a historic step, the Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the first-ever limits on carbon emissions from existing power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, with new analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)[Read More…]

ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–May 30, 2014.  Consumer confidence declined in May, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. Conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research since 1946, the surveys monitor consumer attitudes and expectations. The decrease in May was not due to the gloomy state of the economy[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2014.  Today, the Center for American Progress released an analysis of the residential solar markets in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York. While these states are developing strong residential solar markets, the number of residential installations in each of these states is minimal compared to the more established[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 23, 2014.  Last week, the Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt announced steps that the agency will take to try and ensure that qualified borrowers in all parts of the country have a shot at sustainable homeownership. A new analysis released today by the Center for American[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 20, 2014.  At an event featuring White House Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Munoz, the Center for American Progress today released a new report detailing how Promise Zones are helping to revitalize high-poverty communities. The report provides an overview of the federal government’s role in place-based initiatives, initial observations from the launch[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 19, 2014.  At an event hosted by the White House, the Department of Labor, and the Center for American Progress that examined Boston’s efforts to eliminate the city’s wage gap, the Center for American Progress released a new analysis that explains the controversy surrounding the commonly cited statistic[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 19, 2014.  Illinois is one of the least friendly places in the nation for those caught possessing small amounts of marijuana, a new study by Roosevelt University’s Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy suggests. An emphasis on misdemeanor arrests for possession and a lack of consistency in implementing local pot-ticket[Read More…]