Teaneck, NJ–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2014.  A far greater percentage of Americans support legalizing marijuana than endorse the notion of allowing adults to legally engage in online gambling, according to national polling data compiled by Fairleigh Dickinson University. When asked to choose which of the two activities they “prefer to see legalized[Read More…]

The right wing’s war on brown faces continues, terrified that they may actually vote. Fox News’ The Five aired a deceptively edited video clip of President Obama calling for comprehensive immigration reform to falsely claim that his speech condoned the release of criminal immigrants. Center For Immigration Studies Report On Deportation Of Criminal Immigrants Finds 35 Percent[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 12, 2014.  New CAP analysis and infographics detail the dangerous and costly toll of the congressionally mandated bed quota on our immigration system. Beginning in 2009, Congress directed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, to detain a set number of immigrants each day in an attempt[Read More…]

Extreme Racial Disparities Persist: 86% of arrests are young Black and Latino Men, Even Though Young White Men Use Marijuana At Higher Rates NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—May 9, 2014. Today the Marijuana Arrest Research Project released data showing that racially bias marijuana arrests continue to be one of the leading arrests in[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014– According to a report released today by the AFL-CIO, 4,628 workers were killed in the United States during 2012 due to workplace injuries. Additionally an estimated 50,000 died from occupational diseases, resulting in a loss of nearly 150 workers each day from preventable workplace conditions. “A[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014.  Today, the Center for American Progress and Climate Advisers released a new report that assesses the challenges of poverty and climate change and identifies opportunities to jointly tackle these challenges. Countries around the world have a tremendous opportunity to design a new global development agenda when[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014.  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, people and people living with HIV, or PLWH, face sweeping discrimination at all stages of the criminal legal system—including policing, adjudication, and incarceration—according to a new report published by the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law[Read More…]

Reform Excessively Harsh Criminal Sentences Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014.  Far too many US laws violate basic principles of justice by requiring disproportionately severe punishment, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 36-page report, “Nation Behind Bars: A Human Rights Solution,” notes that laws requiring penalties that are[Read More…]

LONDON–(ENEWSPF)–6 May 2014.  Five Nobel Prize economists call for an end to the ‘war on drugs’ in a new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Ending the Drug Wars: Report of the LSE Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy outlines the enormous negative[Read More…]

CONNECTICUT—(ENEWSPF)—May 5, 2014. With wide racial and age gaps, Florida voters oppose 51 – 41 percent allowing college athletes to form a union and oppose 63 – 31 percent paying salaries beyond scholarships to these athletes, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Support for a college athlete union[Read More…]