Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 22, 2013. Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced research findings showing that, on average, inmates who participated in correctional education programs had 43 percent lower odds of returning to prison than inmates who did not.  Each year approximately 700,000 individuals leave federal[Read More…]

California, Texas and Florida Highways Among Nation’s Most Heavily Traveled WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2013.  The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today released a new report on the nation’s busiest interstates that shows people drove more than 84.7 billion miles on California highways in 2011 – more than 900[Read More…]

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…]