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…]
Analysis
Drugs: The Debate Goes Mainstream
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…]
Decades of State Cuts to Higher Ed Threaten Millentials
New York–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2012. America’s future middle class is in peril, with state investment in public higher education plummeting over the past two decades leaving students and their families to pick up the slack. A just released report by public policy center Demos provides a new analysis of the Grapevine[Read More…]
Demos and American Prospect Launch ‘Taxes Matter 2012’ Week
New York–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2012. Public interest in the tax rate of Warren Buffet’s secretary, Mitt Romney’s capital gains, and the rise of super wealthy supporters of Super PACs all point to an undeniable fact facing the United States: Our tax system is one that favors the wealthy and powerful increasingly[Read More…]
NRDC Report Reveals 29 States Unprepared for Growing Water Threats to Economy, Health
First-of-its-kind state-by-state analysis examines climate preparedness levels in all states, revealing nation’s best and worst; CA, CO, FL, MD, MI, MN, NV, NH, NM, NY, OH, PA, TX, VA, WI highlighted WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2012 – Only nine states have taken comprehensive steps to address their vulnerabilities to the water-related impacts[Read More…]
Rasmussen Poll: Plurality Of Americans Support Legalizing And Taxing Cannabis
Asbury Park, NJ–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2012. A solid plurality of Americans now support legalizing and taxing the production and sale of cannabis, according to nationwide Rasmussen poll of 1,000 adults. According to the telephone poll, 47 percent of adults “believe the country should legalize and tax marijuana in order to help[Read More…]
International Job Creation Policy Menu
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2012. Today, as the nation awaits tomorrow’s release of the latest unemployment numbers, the Just Jobs Network, coordinated by the Center for American Progress, unveiled a new analysis outlining job creation strategies developed by nations across the globe. The menu of policy options to get people back[Read More…]
Arizona’s ‘Show Me Your Papers’ Law in the U.S. Supreme Court, What’s at Stake?
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2012. Yesterday the Center for American Progress convened a panel to discuss the potential ramifications of the Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of Arizona’s S.B. 1070, which among other things requires the police to ask for documentation from anyone they have a reasonable suspicion of being[Read More…]
‘American Lives at Risk’ Report Highlights Painful Impact of Federal ‘Regulatory Reform’
Washington DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 3, 2012. A new report by Demos and the U.S. PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) finds that Americans’ lives, health and livelihoods would be put at risk if so called “regulatory reform” proposals now being considered by the U.S. Congress were to become law, slowing or stopping the[Read More…]
Marijuana Legalization Winning By 5% In New Poll
A New Poll Out States What Most People Already Know – Time To Legalize OREGON–(ENEWSPF)–March 30, 2012. A new poll was released yesterday by Rasmussen Reports that states 47% of people surveyed support ending marijuana prohibition, versus 42% that want to keep marijuana illegal. 10% of respondents were undecided. I[Read More…]
