NEW MEXICO—(ENEWSPF)—December 7, 2017 By: Thomas Singer and Erik Schlenker-Goodrich Tomorrow, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will finalize a one-year suspension of a regulation adopted just a year ago to reduce methane waste on public lands. This is the latest in a series of attempts[Read More…]
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Wisconsin Governor Walker’s Plan to Drug Test Food Stamp Applicants Would Be Wasteful, Ineffective and Perhaps Unconstitutional
Wisconsin—(ENEWSPF)—December 7, 2017 By Widney Brown Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced plans this week to move forward with making Wisconsin the first U.S. state to drug test people applying for food stamps. We’ve been down this road before. Several states have attempted to drug test people applying for public assistance,[Read More…]
Survey: Three Months after Hurricane Harvey, Nearly Half of Affected Texas Residents Say They are Not Getting the Help They Need to Recover
Residents’ Top Priorities for Rebuilding Focus on Financial Help and Housing; Most Give Local and State Governments Good Marks for Response, But Lower for Federal Officials Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 5, 2017 By: Rakesh Singh and Craig Palosky Two-thirds (66%) of residents across 24 Texas counties report that they suffered property damage,[Read More…]
Stop This Tax Scam! Drop by Your Member of Congress’s Office This Week
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 4, 2017 By: Ben Wikler We’ve entered the critical final phase of the fight over the GOP tax bill. What happens in the coming days will have consequences for a generation. While the odds are long, we still have a chance to stop this. It’s time for an[Read More…]
Report Gives Data on Corporate Money to Lawmakers Crafting Tax Bill, Issues New Call for Committee Contribution Ban
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2017 By: Alex Tausanovitch and Liz Kennedy As lawmakers prepare to vote on a bill that gives massive tax cuts to millionaires and corporations, a new report from the Center for American Progress shows how much key members of Congress have accepted in contributions from corporate[Read More…]
Drug Policy Alliance: Kellyanne Conway is the Wrong Person to Lead the White House’s Response to the Opioid Overdose Crisis
Administration Continues to Rely on Failed Criminal Justice Approaches to a Public Health Problem Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2017 By: Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno More than thirty days ago, President Trump declared a public health emergency on the opioid overdose crisis. In the month since the declaration, there has been little substantive[Read More…]
Drug Policy Alliance: Google Should Follow Apple’s Lead and Remove Video Games Glorifying the Drug War in the Philippines
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 30, 2017 By: Hannah Hetzer The President of the Philippines is responsible for a brutal drug war that has killed thousands of people in his country. He is also the protagonist in a series of online video games that glorify these murders. In these games, players act as[Read More…]
Ivanka Trump Should Stop Pretending the Tax Bill Will Help Women and Families
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 28, 2017 By: Shilpa Phadke U.S. House Republicans recently jammed through a tax bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, that gives massive tax cuts to millionaires and the ultrarich instead of those who need it the most: working families. Ivanka Trump, who has been traveling around the[Read More…]
During Thanksgiving, Talk to Your Family About the Trump Tax Scam – Here’s How
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 22, 2017 By: Chad Bolt Senate Republicans are closer than ever to passing the Trump Tax Scam. It’s being sold as a “gift to the middle class”—but it actually raises taxes on 94 million American families, all to give its biggest tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations.[Read More…]
“The Empty Chair at the Holiday Table” Campaign Highlights Devastation Caused by the War on Drugs
Failed War on Drugs has Resulted in: Incarceration, Overdose Death, Stigma, Drug War Violence San Diego, CA –(ENEWSPF)—November 22, 2017 By: Gretchen Burns Bergman This holiday season A New PATH and moms from across the globe share their stories of loss while calling for an end to the war on[Read More…]
