Nancy Jimenez works long hours at her in-home childcare business, but she—like many other New Jersey childcare providers—are given meager subsidies from the state in return. Why are our publicly subsidized childcare workers not given the respect and compensation their task deserves? Read the full story by E. Tammy Kim[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 19, 2013.  Today the Center for American Progress and Elle released a new survey that unpacks what professional men and women think about “leaning in.” The survey tests how women perceive the challenges they face in the workplace and examines support for the policy changes that could improve[Read More…]

New Report Outlines Recommendations to Improve Disaster Readiness and Resiliency in Low-Income Communities Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 19, 2013.  Today, the task force charged with developing a strategy for rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy released a new report outlining 69 policy recommendations. Against this backdrop and as states impacted by Sandy continue to[Read More…]

ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2013.  Facebook helps people feel connected, but it doesn’t necessarily make them happier, a new study shows. 

Facebook use actually predicts declines in a user’s well-being, according to a University of Michigan study that is the first known published research examining Facebook influence on happiness and satisfaction.[Read More…]

For 65 years, most information-theoretic analyses of cryptographic systems have made a mathematical assumption that turns out to be wrong CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2013.  Information theory — the discipline that gave us digital communication and data compression — also put cryptography on a secure mathematical foundation. Since 1948, when the[Read More…]

New Report Outlines How to Limit the Influence of Corporate Campaign Cash on the Illinois Justice System Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 14, 2013.  News dropped last week that Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier could face questions under oath about his vote to overturn a $1 billion verdict against State Farm after[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 14, 2013. By Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director The passage of medical cannabis laws is associated with a reduction in the public’s consumption of alcohol and with fewer incidences of alcohol-related traffic fatalities, according to data published in the Journal of Law and Economics. Investigators at Montana State[Read More…]

Report Calls for the Taxation and Regulation of Marijuana for Adults; Advocates Demand a Comprehensive Overhaul of New York’s Racially Biased and Broken Marijuana Policies NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 13, 2013.  Today, New York City Comptroller John Liu announced the release of a report calling for a system to tax and regulate[Read More…]

Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–August 13, 2013.  Excessive alcohol use causes a large economic burden to states and the District of Columbia, according to a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Excessive alcohol use cost states and D.C. a median of $2.9 billion in 2006, ranging from $420[Read More…]

ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2013.  The United States uses more energy for air conditioning than all other countries combined, but its status as the world’s largest AC energy hog may soon be in jeopardy, said a University of Michigan researcher. A new study by Michael Sivak, research professor and director of[Read More…]