Supermajority (59%) includes 40% of GOP New York–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2014.  A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows a record-high 59% of Americans support marriage for same-sex couples, with only 34% opposed. The deep support reaches into every region of the country, including the South, Midwest, and West, and extends across party lines:[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2014.  How do minimum wage policy increases affect enrollments and expenditures on means-tested public assistance programs? In this report we address this question for the case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program. By definition, government spending on a[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2014.  Following the release of President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2015, the Center for American Progress released a report detailing how the president’s budget moves away from the misguided focus on austerity and debt and instead sets an agenda that will promote economic growth and opportunity. “President[Read More…]

Analysis Professor Robert Reich slammed Repl Paul Ryan’s House Budget Committee just-released report on poverty. Reich made the comments on his Facebook page: Rep. Paul Ryan’s House Budget Committee just released a report entitled "The War On Poverty: 50 Years Later" that notes the scandalous reality of American poverty today[Read More…]

One Familiar Letter – R – Could Dramatically Reduce Youth Smoking Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2014.  As viewers around the world prepare to tune in for Sunday’s 86th annual Academy Awards honoring achievements in the film industry, the public health community is drawing attention to new data concluding that by eliminating[Read More…]

Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2014.  Ahead of the March 5-6 meeting of the International Contact Group on Congo, the Enough Project released a new report today outlining challenges to the successful implementation of the national disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration, or DDR, strategy known as DDR III. The report, “Crafting a[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2014.  A report released today by the Center for American Progress sheds light on the potential risks tenants and communities could face if Wall Street investment companies begin buying and renting single-family homes at a faster clip. The paper, authored by CAP housing expert Sarah Edelman, details[Read More…]

Study by Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University shows households that refinanced at historically low interest rates may threaten housing market recovery. (Photo by Jeff Carrion) CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 26, 2014. Millions of households that purchased a home or refinanced their mortgages during the last four years when interest rates were[Read More…]

Nearly one-third of Millennials who left childhood religion cite negative church teachings about gay and lesbian people as important factor WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 26, 2014.  In the decade since Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, Americans’ support for allowing gay and lesbian people to legally wed has jumped 21[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 25, 2014.  Today, the Center for American Progress released a report articulating why civilian workplace protections are especially important to LGBT service members and veterans, who must shoulder the burden of LGBT discrimination in addition to overcoming challenges to employment that veterans face when they return home from[Read More…]