AFL-CIO President Trumka Launches 2012 Executive PayWatch Searchable Online Data Bank of CEO Pay www.paywatch.org  Washington–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2012 — According to data released by the AFL-CIO today, CEOs of S&P 500 Index companies received an average of $12.9 million in pay in 2011 – a 14 percent raise. The ratio of CEO[Read More…]

FTC’s Funeral Rule Requires Funeral Homes to Provide Price Lists to Consumers Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2012.  Investigators working undercover in nine states detected significant violations of Federal Trade Commission consumer protection requirements in 23 of 102 funeral homes they visited during 2011. The FTC conducts undercover inspections every year to[Read More…]

Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2012.  The Center for American Progress today released an analysis finding that of the 11 states that submitted applications to waive requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, most missed an important opportunity to rethink how they use time in school to promote student achievement. Time[Read More…]

Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 17, 2012.  Today is Equal Pay Day, and the Center for American Progress released a package of products highlighting the importance of closing the gender wage gap. Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into 2012 the average woman must work to earn what the average man earned in[Read More…]

UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–16 April 2012.  The time diaries of working age men and women in the UK reveal that women who went to college or university spent more time doing paid work and did less housework in the 2000s compared with similarly educated women in the 1970s. The study also shows[Read More…]

Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2012.  On Friday, in anticipation of a vote early next week by the U.S. House of Representatives on H.R. 9, a bill introduced by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) to provide a one-year, 20 percent tax deduction for business income, the Center for American Progress released an[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 13, 2012.  Today, as the United States and its international partners prepare to resume negotiations with Iran over its suspect nuclear program, the Center for American Progress released a report, “Strengthening America’s Options on Iran,” a report highlighting ten key questions that should be asked in the debate[Read More…]

Ghent, Belgium–(ENEWSPF)–April 13, 2012.  Belgian drivers injured in traffic accidents are far more likely to possess drugs and alcohol in their systems than are Dutch drivers, according to data to be published in the journal Forensic Science International. Investigators from Belgium and the Netherlands compared the prevalence of alcohol, licit[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 12, 2012.  Today, in anticipation of next Tuesday’s Equal Pay Day, the Center for American Progress released a package of reports finding that guaranteeing workers paid family and medical leave will promote greater gender equity and reduce the gender wage gap. Additionally, providing workers paid leave will also[Read More…]

BRAZIL–(ENEWSPF)–April 12, 2012.  By Fernando Henrique Cardoso, César Gaviria and Ernesto Zedillo What is the best way to deal with drugs? Criminalizing drug users or treating them as patients? Sticking to a strict prohibitionist stance or experimenting with alternative forms of regulation and prevention? Latin America is talking about drugs[Read More…]