“I Am Not Margaret Mead: Protecting Women’s Access to Financially Secure Retirement” highlights plight of working women WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 11, 2014. A new web documentary from SEIU’s retirement security campaign is calling for solutions to the retirement security crisis that threatens working women across the country. “I am not Margaret[Read More…]
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Principles to Make Progress on Trade and Competitiveness
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 11, 2014. As our nation’s lawmakers begin debating major regional trade deals with both the Asia Pacific and Europe, the Center for American Progress today unveiled a set of principles to guide Congress and the Obama administration in their efforts to forge a new consensus on how trade[Read More…]
Upcoming Afghan Election is Critical to Future of Country, Success of U.S. Mission
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2014. Today, as Afghans prepare to go to the polls in less than one month, the Center for American Progress released a report at an event featuring Sen. Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA) on the political, economic, and security transitions under way in Afghanistan as Afghans adapt[Read More…]
Drug Policy Alliance: Obama Administration Announces Plan to Address Rising Heroin Overdose Deaths
DPA Urges White House to Focus on Health-Based Approaches Rather Than Counterproductive Law Enforcement and Drug War Tactics LOS ANGELES, CA–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2014. The Drug Policy Alliance joins overdose prevention advocates across the country in applauding today’s statement by US Attorney General Eric Holder encouraging expanded access to naloxone, an[Read More…]
Center for Reproductive Rights Calls on West Virginia Governor to Veto Cruel and Unconstitutional Abortion Ban
HB 4588 prohibits abortion at critical time in pregnancy, includes no exception for rape or incest, poses grave threat to women’s health and lives NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2014. The West Virginia Legislature passed HB 4588 this weekend, an unconstitutional ban on abortion at 20 weeks—a time when pregnant women are[Read More…]
Women’s Leadership: What’s True, What’s False, and Why It Matters
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill. SOURCE: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2014. At an event today featuring remarks by Val Demings, the first woman to have served as police chief in Orlando, Florida, the Center for American Progress released the report, “Women’s Leadership:[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on Release of Sexual Abuse Regulations for Immigration Detention Facilities
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2014. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced that it has finalized its Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Standards for immigration detention facilities. Today’s standards are needed because though PREA became law over a decade ago, the Department of Justice issued a rule in 2012 that excluded[Read More…]
House Budget Committee Chair Ryan Misrepresents Economists in Poverty Report
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 7, 2014. The House Budget Committee released a report, The War on Poverty: Fifty Years Later, on Monday, and the findings left several economists and social scientists bemused and angry, according to The Fiscal Times. Several experts who read it said that Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) either[Read More…]
Del. McIntosh Kills Fracking Wastewater Bill, Leaves Maryland Vulnerable to Contaminants From Out-of-State Fracking Waste
Statement by Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter Annapolis, MD—(ENEWSPF)—March 7, 2014. “Yesterday, the Maryland House of Delegates Environmental Matters Committee lost a valuable opportunity to provide protection for Marylanders against the dangers of fracking when it blocked legislation to ban the treatment, storage, disposal, and discharge of[Read More…]
NRDC Report: U.S. Nuclear Safety Regulators Ignore Severe Accident Hydrogen Explosion Risks Despite Fukushima Tragedy
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2014—Three years after hydrogen explosions wreaked havoc in the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is still not adequately protecting American nuclear reactors from the risk of similar hydrogen blasts in a severe accident, according to a new report by the Natural Resources Defense[Read More…]
