New York, NY –(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. A new study published in PLOS Medicine from researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Planned Parenthood reveals the significant obstacles and increased medical treatments that Ohio women experienced when health care providers were forced to use outdated FDA protocols[Read More…]
Opinion
SEIU’s Rocio Saenz on Donald Trump’s Immigration Policy Speech: Trump Obsessed With ‘Us’ vs. ‘Them’ Bigotry
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. In response to Donald Trump’s immigration policy speech in Arizona, SEIU Executive Vice President Rocio Saenz issued the following statement: “This speech changed nothing for Donald Trump. What we heard tonight was nothing new. Just more of the same hateful and divisive speech aimed at creating an ‘Us’ vs ‘Them’ divide in our country. We heard it[Read More…]
The Reviews Are In: Trump Doubles Down on Anti-Immigrant Policies
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. Delivering his darkest speech yet, last night Donald Trump confirmed what we knew all along: there’s no new Trump, no pivot and no “softening.” He will continue his divisive campaign, spewing hateful rhetoric and pledging to forcibly deport every undocumented immigrant from our country. He described[Read More…]
New Study Points to Chicago’s West Side as the Region’s Epicenter for Heroin Hospitalizations and Arrests
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. While widespread heroin use in Chicago’s suburbs has been well documented, people are more likely to suffer negative health and criminal justice impacts due to heroin on Chicago’s West Side than in any other part of the city or the Chicagoland region. Long considered to be a[Read More…]
A Doctor Dissects Trump’s Doctors Letter. It Ain’t Pretty.
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016 By Murfster35 Want to change4 your story Dr? At this point I’m thinking that the good Dr. Bornstein wishes that both he and his most excellent patient had just both kept their big, fat mouths shut. For a while there, it looked like they had gotten[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Trump Attacks Climate Action In Failed Attempt to Demonstrate International Leadership
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. Today, Donald Trump attacked international efforts to take action to tackle the climate crisis during a speech about his immigration policy. In Response, Sierra Club Political Director Khalid Pitts Released the Following Statement: “Trump has proven twice today how humiliating to the United States he[Read More…]
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending August 27, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016 SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending August 27, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 263,000, an increase of 2,000 from the previous week’s unrevised level of 261,000. The 4-week moving average was 263,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the previous week’s unrevised[Read More…]
Expanding Law Enforcement Training, Mandating Data Collection, and Instituting Statewide Use-Of-Force Guidelines Among Center for American Progress Recommendations to Improve Police Relations with Communities of Color
A man speaks with police in a park in Milwaukee, August 2016. Source: AP/Jeffrey Phelps Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. Today, in the wake of high tensions between communities of color and law enforcement, the Center for American Progress released a new issue brief exploring the intersection of race[Read More…]
Trump’s History of Disrespect for Veterans and Military Families
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. With Donald Trump delivering remarks this morning at the American Legion convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, and despite his occasional lip service on the trail, Trump continually has disrespected our veterans and our military for decades. From firing employees because of their military service, to lying about donations[Read More…]
Two Four-Star Generals Back Clinton
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. In a joint statement, two Four Star Generals, Bob Sennewald and David Maddox are endorsing Hillary Clinton for President. Sennewald is the former Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command, and Maddox was formerly Commander in Chief, U.S. Army-Europe. Clinton spoke at the American Legion on Wednesday:[Read More…]
