WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—September 17, 2015. Under the leadership of Chairman Paul Ryan, the House Ways and Means committee is considering legislation to make many of the so-called “tax extenders” permanent. The legislation excludes the production tax credit for wind, a now-expired incentive that is vital to the growing domestic wind industry.[Read More…]
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Black Youth Project 100 Statement in Response to IPRA Recommendation to Fire Chicago Police Detective Servin
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—September 17, 2015. On September 16, 2015, the Chicago Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA) recommended that Dante Servin be fired from the Chicago Police Department (CPD); a recommendation that should have been made five months, if not three years ago. This recommendation marks only the second of its kind since[Read More…]
For First Time in History, a State Generates More Annual Tax Revenue From Marijuana Sales Than From Alcohol Sales
Colorado’s ‘marijuana tax holiday’ on Wednesday will be a ‘much-deserved day off’ — the state raised nearly $70 million from marijuana-specific taxes in FY 2014-2015, compared to just under $42 million from alcohol-specific taxes DENVER —(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2015. For the first time in history, a state has generated more annual revenue from taxes imposed on[Read More…]
New Study: Voting Machines at Risk Ahead of 2016 Election
43 States Will Have Machines At Least 10 Years Old, Could Lead to Long Lines and Lost Votes NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2015. In 2016, 43 states will use electronic voting machines that are at least 10 years old, perilously close to the end of most systems’ expected lifespan, according to[Read More…]
Working Families Respond to Scott Walker’s Proposals to Silence Their Voice
GOP candidate to announce plan to expand Koch brothers measures to entire nation Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 14, 2015. Monday night at a town hall meeting in Las Vegas, Scott Walker will promise that if he were elected president, he would enact several anti-union measures by executive order that would devastate workers’[Read More…]
Planting Peace Sends a Message to Kim Davis
KANSAS–(ENEWSPF)–September 12, 2015. Following the June 26th Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality, Rowan County clerk Kim Davis refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses in her home state, citing that doing so compromised her religious beliefs. That day, she became the poster child for the anti-gay movement. As has[Read More…]
Earthjustice: Federal Court Overturns EPA Approval of Bee-Killing Pesticide
Victory: 9th Circuit rejects approval of Dow Chemical’s sulfoxaflor Alyssa Anderson, daughter of a beekeeper, holds a baby bee in a California orchard. Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice San Francisco, CA —(ENEWSPF)–September 10, 2015. Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected U.S. EPA’s approval of the neonicotinoid insecticide “sulfoxaflor.” The[Read More…]
Most Consumers Choose Retail Marijuana Access Over The Illicit Market
Pawtucket, RI–(ENEWSPF)–September 11, 2015. Retail cannabis providers are far more popular with consumers than are illicit market providers, according to survey data compiled and published by Marijuana Business Daily. Sixty-nine percent of respondents who resided in states that permit regulated marijuana sales reported no longer purchasing cannabis from the black[Read More…]
Washington: Marijuana Law Changes Not Associated With Increased Teen Use
Olympia, WA–(ENEWSPF)–September 11, 2015. Changes in marijuana laws are not associated with increased use of the substance by teens, according to data compiled by Washington’s Healthy Youth Survey and published by the Washington State Institute of Public Policy. State survey results from the years 2002 to 2014 show little change[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Report Suggests Unions Are Critical to Intergenerational Economic Mobility
New CAP research, co-authored with economists Richard Freeman and Eunice Han, indicates that policies that make it easier for workers to form unions and bargain collectively should be at the heart of any agenda to boost mobility. Duke Scoppa marches up Fifth Ave with his son during the Labor Parade,[Read More…]
