A Look at the State’s Emerging Communities of Color Before the Republican Primary Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2012.  The Center for American Progress today released the “Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alabama’s Demographic Changes and Immigration Politics.” Alabama is slated to have its primary for the Republican presidential nomination[Read More…]

OREGON–(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2012.  Everyday I read and hear marijuana activists stating the importance of the marijuana voting bloc in this election.  It got me wondering, how big is the marijuana voting bloc?  Can the marijuana voting bloc even be measured?  I Googled the question, and the overwhelming return dealt with[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2012.  Today, on International Women’s Day, the Center for American Progress released two pieces reiterating the underestimated impact and barriers still faced by women worldwide and in the United States, particularly women of color. The impact of women’s entrepreneurship on the global economy cannot be underestimated. In[Read More…]

Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2012.  Today a new analysis by the Center for American Progress debunks the conservative talking point that the richest 1 percent of Americans are overtaxed because they pay a higher share of taxes. Conservatives often point out that the top 1 percent of income earners pay about[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2012.  Yesterday the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released grim findings about the student debt crisis across the nation. According to the these findings, the total outstanding student loan balance now stands at about $870 billion, and as many as 47 percent of student loan borrowers[Read More…]

TORONTO, ON–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2012.  The upper class has a higher propensity for unethical behavior, being more likely to believe – as did Gordon Gekko in the movie “Wall Street” – that “greed is good,” according to a new study from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University[Read More…]

Identity Theft Once Again Tops the List Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 28, 2012.  The Federal Trade Commission today released its list of top consumer complaints received by the agency in 2011. For the 12th year in a row, identity theft complaints topped the list. Of more than 1.8 million complaints filed in[Read More…]

They Have Significant Economic, Cultural, and Electoral Power in the State Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2012.  In advance of Arizona’s Republican caucus next Tuesday, the Center for American Progress released a list of important facts about Latinos and immigrants in the state. Since Arizona’s Republican-controlled legislature and governor passed the harsh[Read More…]

Study: Overseas manufacturing competition hits U.S. regions hard, leaving workers unemployed for years and local economies struggling. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2012.  The loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs is a topic that can provoke heated arguments about globalization. But what do the cold, hard numbers reveal? How has the rise in[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2012.  Today the Center for American Progress released a report, “Moving Away from Racial Stereotypes in Poverty Policy: Trends Suggest a Decline in Race Baiting, Creating Ways to Better Examine Race in Policymaking,” that analyzes how race baiting and stereotypes affect the debate about public benefits and[Read More…]