WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—June 9, 2014. Statement of American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten on President Obama’s executive order to make student loans more affordable. Several AFT members will join President Obama for today’s announcement. “No student should have to face the triple threat of skyrocketing higher education cost, high interest rates[Read More…]
Opinion
Consumers Union Praises White House Action to Ease Burden of Student Loan Debt
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—June 9, 2014. President Obama today took actions to ease the burden of college loan debt for millions of Americans, including an executive order to expand the number of people who can take advantage of a law that lowers student loan payments to 10 percent of their monthly income. The[Read More…]
Center for American Progress’ Statement on President Obama’s Executive Action on Student Debt
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 9, 2014. Today, President Barack Obama issued an executive action to ease student-loan debt. In response, Carmel Martin, Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress, released the following statement: Millions of federal student-loan borrowers—from young adults to senior citizens—are struggling to repay their student loans.[Read More…]
The Drug Enforcement Administration: Four Decades of Impeding And Rejecting Science
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 9, 2014. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) has released their new report, “The DEA: Four Decades of Impeding and Rejecting Science.” The report – which is being made available today – documents a decades-long pattern of systematically obstructing medical research[Read More…]
Op-Ed by President Obama in Indian Country Today
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2014. This morning, in an op-ed published in Indian Country Today, President Obama announced his upcoming travel to Cannonball N.D. to visit the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Friday, June 13. The President will be accompanied by the First Lady in his first visit to Indian Country[Read More…]
Dealing with Climate Change: A Moral Obligation
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014. By Sally Jewell, U.S. Secretary of the Interior President Obama understands that we have a moral obligation to future generations to leave our land, water and wildlife better than we found it. The Administration this week unveiled another historic milestone in the President’s bold Climate[Read More…]
Horrific Stories of Two Babies Victimized by the War on Drugs
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. By: Sharda Sekaran The multi-decade, trillion dollar waste that we call the drug war has become increasingly unpopular, with everyone from Nobel Prize-winning economists to leaders from the religious and civil rights communities calling for its end. Those who defend arresting, incarcerating and militarizing our way[Read More…]
Statement by AFL-CIO President Trumka on Raising Seattle’s Minimum Wage
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014. Today’s vote in Seattle will go down in history as a milestone in the struggle to raise wages and ensure fair pay for all workers. It is proof that when working people organize and make their voices heard, we all benefit. While Republicans in Congress fail[Read More…]
SEIU’s Henry: Seattle Workers Show the Way by Winning $15/Hour Wage Floor
WASHINGTON, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. After the Seattle City Council voted to lift the minimum wage in Seattle to $15 per hour, Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement: “Like working Americans across the country, the 2.1 million members of SEIU are tremendously[Read More…]
Center for Biological Diversity: Obama Power Plant Plan Doesn’t Cut Carbon Pollution Quickly Enough
More Ambitious Emission Reductions Needed to Ward Off Warming Crisis WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014. New rules unveiled today by President Barack Obama don’t do enough to cut planet-warming pollution from America’s power plants. Using the Clean Air Act, the president aims to reduce existing power plant emissions 30 percent below 2005[Read More…]
