Examiners Uncover Illegal Practices in Student Loan Servicing, Mortgage Origination and Servicing, Consumer Reporting, and Debt Collection Markets WASHINGTON, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–November 3, 2015. Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its latest supervision report outlining the illegal practices uncovered by the Bureau’s examiners from May 2015 to August 2015.[Read More…]
Opinion
To Help Teachers Adapt to a Changing America, Center for American Progress Offers a Progressive Agenda to Transform and Elevate the Teaching Profession
This new CAP report outlines a vision for how to elevate and modernize the teaching profession so that every student is taught by great teachers. Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–November 3, 2015. In a new report released today, the Center for American Progress offers a progressive agenda to transform and elevate the teaching[Read More…]
New Strategies Are Required to Confront Modern Terrorist Financing, Center for American Progress Report Argues
An oil field under control of Kurdish militias is seen near the town of Deriq, in a Kurdish area of Syria, near the border with Iraq in March 2003. Source: AP/Manu Brabo Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–November 2, 2015. In the years following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States developed very[Read More…]
AFL-CIO: Congress Must Pass Clean Budget with No Ideological Riders
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 2, 2015. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka made the following statement after President Obama signed the budget agreement: Now that a bipartisan budget agreement has been signed and threats of a government shutdown temporarily eliminated, the critical appropriations process begins. Congress must implement a clean budget that invests in[Read More…]
7 Years After the Housing Crash, Nearly 1,000 U.S. Counties Present Increasing or Stagnating Percentages of Underwater Homes
Pictured is a street scene in Detroit, where it’s not uncommon to find dilapidated homes side by side with occupied homes, December 2014. Source: AP/Beth J. Harpaz Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–November 2, 2015. A comprehensive new analysis released today by the Center for American Progress reveals that more than seven years[Read More…]
Op-Ed by First Lady Michelle Obama: Let Girls Learn
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 2, 2015. The following op-ed by First Lady Michelle Obama appeared on TheAtlantic.com. First Lady Michelle Obama: Let Girls Learn — Addressing the global crisis in girls’ education requires not just investment, but challenging cultural beliefs and practices. Right now, 62 million girls worldwide are not in school.[Read More…]
Shortfalls of Existing Retirement Savings Incentives in the U.S. Tax Code Contribute to the Looming Retirement Crisis
An elderly employee poses for a photo at her workplace in Lincoln, Nebraska, August 2012. Source: AP/Nati Harnik Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2015. America’s middle class faces a burgeoning retirement crisis—but changes to the U.S. tax code could help alleviate the crisis and help Americans save for life after work,[Read More…]
Without Serious Improvements to ESEA Bills, Congress Risks Hiding Performance of Millions of Disadvantaged Students
Students arrive for class at a St. Louis high school, October 22, 2015. Source: AP/Jeff Roberson Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2015. A new analysis from the Center for American Progress reveals that both the House and the Senate versions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA, could have the[Read More…]
Ethan Nadelmann: Will Ohio Vote for Controversial Marijuana Legalization Plan?
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—October 30, 2015 By Ethan Nadelmann The only significant marijuana legalization initiative on the ballot this November is in Ohio. Issue 3 is a first in many respects: the first marijuana reform campaign funded almost entirely by “investors” who would benefit financially from the initiative, the first initiative to[Read More…]
NRDC: Senator Kirk Siding With Polluters On Vote to Dismantle Clean Power Plan
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 28, 2015 – Despite the vast majority of Illinoisans who demand action on climate change, POLITICO is reporting that Senator Mark Kirk has decided to side with polluters by announcing he will vote to repeal the Clean Power Plan. The historic effort to slash carbon pollution from power plants, the single[Read More…]
