Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2013. In this week’s TIME magazine cover story, contributor Steven Brill sheds light on the exorbitant health care costs plaguing our nation and reveals the shocking degree to which we allow hospitals, laboratories, and medical suppliers to profit at the expense of their patients. National health spending[Read More…]

Learning from problems with Reagan-era emergency access law could help improve Obama-era Affordable Care Act, trio of U-M doctors says ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2013. Two major health reform laws, enacted 25 years apart, both try to meet an ethical standard to provide broad access to basic health care. Neither[Read More…]

Poll Shows Latinos Overwhelmingly Support Obama Call For Action on Industrial Carbon Pollution WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2013 – About three out of four Latinos believe that climate change is a serious problem and a substantial majority support President Obama using his authority to reduce its main cause: dangerous carbon pollution, according[Read More…]

  Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 21, 2013. All employees Real average hourly earnings for all employees rose 0.2 percent from December to January, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The increase in real average hourly earnings was due to a 0.2 percent increase in average hourly earnings combined[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2013. Following Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s recent announcement that the Department of Defense would extend some benefits to same-sex couples, advocates quickly turned to another stumbling block—the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on its constitutionality this summer. Today the Center for[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. Today, in advance of the Perry and Windsor Supreme Court hearings next month, the Center for American Progress and Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders released the results of a national voter survey showing an increase in public opposition to the Defense of Marriage Act, or[Read More…]

ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. Personal income, interest rates and the price of gas all influence auto sales, but a country’s gross domestic product alone is a good indicator of new sales, says a researcher at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. In a new study of 48 countries, UMTRI[Read More…]

However, younger parents are more likely to say online scores for physicians are very important, according to U-M’s National Poll on Children’s Health ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. Numerous websites are available to rate just about any service or product: restaurant food, hotel service and even a pediatrician’s care. However,[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2013. Unless Congress acts, on March 1 automatic and indiscriminate spending cuts will hit key programs, costing our economy more than 1 million jobs and cutting essential services for millions of low- and middle-income families. But a new infographic released yesterday by the Center for American Progress[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 14, 2013. Today, as the gun control debate continues on the national stage, the Center for American Progress released “NRA Working to Elect Pro-Gun Judges and Prosecutors,” which traces the millions of dollars that the Law Enforcement Alliance of America, or LEAA, has spent in state races—with the[Read More…]