NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2015. Below is a statement Hillary for America Chair John Podesta on Jeb Bush’s energy proposals: “Today, Jeb Bush is proposing an energy plan that reads like a Big Oil wishlist, while apparently omitting clean energy and renewables entirely. Given Bush’s long record of climate defeatism and[Read More…]
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CAIR Calls on RNC to Repudiate Ben Carson’s Statement on Faith-Based Surveillance
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2015 – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, yesterday called on the Republican National Committee (RNC) to repudiate GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson’s stated willingness to consider religion as probable cause for searches. Appearing Sunday on ABC’s “This[Read More…]
Snake Oil Alert: U.S. Senate Ready to Roll Out 21st Century Cures Bill
Senate HELP Committee Prepares to Release Its FDA Overhaul Proposal; Beware of Talk of Bipartisanship Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2015. The U.S. Senate’s Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee is expected to release its version of the 21st Century Cures Act soon. If the bill resembles the version approved in[Read More…]
NARAL Pro-Choice America on Upcoming Congressional Hearing on Planned Parenthood
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2015. In response to the upcoming Planned Parenthood hearing this morning, NARAL Pro-Choice America released a statement from Sasha Bruce, Senior Vice President of Campaigns and Strategy: “Today, the witch hunt against Planned Parenthood continues, demonstrating just how far anti-choice and extremist politicians are willing to go[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Bush’s Energy Plan Isn’t ‘Low Energy’ or ‘High Energy’–It’s Every Type of ‘Dirty Energy’
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—September 29, 2015. Today, Jeb Bush is releasing his national energy plan. According to early advanced reporting, elements of the plan include lifting the crude oil export ban, eliminating essential clean air and climate safeguards, building the dirty Keystone XL pipeline, drilling off Alaska’s pristine coast and[Read More…]
Women’s Rising Earnings Have Reduced Inequality, New Center for American Progress Analysis Finds
Job seekers make their way through the large crowd at the Women For Hire Career Expo in New York City in 2009. Source: AP/Seth Wenig Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2015. While there is striking public support for work-family policies such as paid family leave, paid sick days, and access to[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Briefs Reveal Costly, Unnecessary ‘White Elephant’ Transportation Projects, Highlight Lack of Accountability With Federal Transportation Funds
The beach in Panama City, Florida, is seen on April 12, 2015. Source: AP/Melissa Nelson-Gabriel Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2015. Three new briefs from the Center for American Progress analyze three infrastructure projects—or “white elephants”—that epitomize the worst of the United States’ current policy approach to infrastructure. With Congress undertaking[Read More…]
Center for American Progress’ Rebecca Vallas on the Social Security Earned Benefits Payment Act
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2015. New legislation was introduced in Congress yesterday that would rebalance the Social Security trust funds and ensure that all promised benefits can be paid for the next nearly two decades. Rebecca Vallas, Director of Policy for the Poverty to Prosperity Program at the Center for[Read More…]
Study: New Framework Helps Measure, Define Global Homelessness
Institute of Global Homelessness bridges international efforts Experts in homelessness listen during an international conference hosted by the Institute of Global Homelessness at DePaul University. Efforts to collaborate on ending homelessness have sometimes stalled because of a lack of shared definitions, but a new framework from the institute aims to[Read More…]
Continued Leadership in Carbon Cuts is Needed Before, and After, Paris
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 28, 2015 — Upcoming global climate talks in Paris have already teed up the largest carbon cut pledges in history, but even those will leave the world far short of what we’ll need to avert the worst impacts of climate change, the influential group Climate Interactive noted in an[Read More…]
