Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 5, 2014.  While America’s public schools are becoming increasingly more diverse, a new report released by the Center for American Progress finds that nearly every state is experiencing a large and growing teacher diversity gap, or a significant difference between the number of students of color and teachers[Read More…]

Source: BestPsychologyDegrees.org The Psychological Effects of Poverty For the more than 40 million Americans in poverty, everyday life is a struggle — buying food, going to school, getting a job. And for a great many of them, what most people think of as simple tasks are also difficult. Let’s explore[Read More…]

Yesterday’s Lynchburg, Virginia explosion is one of potentially thousands of chemical disasters that may occur in residential communities, contaminating the water we drink and the air that we breathe WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2014—The Environmental Justice and Health Alliance (EJHA), a national coalition of grassroots groups working on toxic chemical exposures that[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2014.  In advance of tomorrow’s monthly employment report from BLS, the Center for American Progress today released an analysis of the current state of the U.S. labor market. The analysis takes an in-depth look at data beyond the unemployment rate, and finds that the rest of the[Read More…]

Extensive Field Research Argues that the U.S., U.N. Must Help Cut Off Illicit Revenues of Violent Groups, Support a Comprehensive Peace Process Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2014.  As violence grows in the Central African Republic, with fears of intensifying divisions and northern secession, the Enough Project released its first report on[Read More…]

New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014.  In the 2014 election season’s high-dollar competitive primaries, Tea Party candidates have been largely out-fundraised, according to a new analysis from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. High-Dollar 2014 Primary Elections uses quarterly Federal Election Commission (FEC) campaign finance filings data in 16 competitive[Read More…]

ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014.  Slightly more than 4 percent of people given death sentences in the United States are innocent, according to new peer-reviewed research led by a University of Michigan expert. The finding shows that the number of innocent people sentenced to death is more than twice the number[Read More…]

Connecticut—(ENEWSPF)—April 29, 2014. Legalizing marijuana has been good for Colorado, voters in the state say 52 –38 percent, but 52 percent of voters are less likely to vote for a candidate for office who smokes marijuana two or three days a week, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday.[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014.  A new report released today by the Center for American Progress provides an inside look at how a surge of oil and gas industry investments since 2008 has incentivized the National Rifle Association, or NRA, Safari Club International, or SCI, and the Congressional Sportsmen Foundation, or[Read More…]

From Al Jazeera America: More than six million Jews died during the Nazi holocaust in world war two. Hundreds of thousands of elderly survivors now call Israel home. But even in the country where they are safe from persecution the survivors aren’t free from the painful memories and our Nick[Read More…]