“America the Crumbling or America the Great? It’s Time to Build America” Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2014 – The U.S. House of Representatives’ Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing, “Building the Foundation for Surface Transportation Reauthorization,” underscores the urgent need for passing a long-term Highway Bill before the current bill expires on[Read More…]
Opinion
Trans Pacific Partnership v. Democracy
Massachusetts—(ENEWSPF)—January 13, 2014. Last week, legislation to fast track a vote on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) was introduced in Congress. President Obama, who, along with advisors from several hundred corporations, has built the TPP in secret, away from the prying eyes of Congress or the public, desperately wants this[Read More…]
Center for American Progress’ Lawrence J. Korb on Joint Plan of Action Implementation Agreement between the P5+1 and Iran
Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—January 12, 2014. Today, the Obama administration announced that an agreement between the P5+1 and the Islamic Republic of Iran had been reached on the implementation of the Joint Plan of Action, or JPA, signed in November. As with the signing of the JPA, today’s agreement marks another significant[Read More…]
The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
Kristeen Rogers, 23, of Clermont, Florida, a single mother of two girls, Lexi, 4, and Jada, 2, works multiple jobs to pay the bills, put food on the table, and get her girls into daycare. At the end of her shift waitressing at The Mad Melon Cafe Rogers, she sits[Read More…]
Millionaires’ Club: For First Time, Most Lawmakers are Worth $1 Million-Plus
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 10, 2014. For the first time in history, most members of Congress are millionaires, according to a new analysis of personal financial disclosure data by the Center for Responsive Politics. Of 534 current members of Congress, at least 268 had an average net worth of $1 million or[Read More…]
5 Reasons Congress Must Extend Unemployment Insurance
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 10, 2014. In light of today’s unemployment report, which verified that job growth in the United States remains volatile, the Center for American Progress released an issue brief detailing five reasons why Congress must persist in extending unemployment benefits. According to the new CAP analysis, failing to do[Read More…]
Study: Alcohol, Not Cannabis, Associated With Intimate Partner Violence
Knoxville, TN–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2014. Men’s consumption of alcohol, but not cannabis, is associated with intimate partner violence, according to survey data published this month in the journal Addictive Behaviors. Investigators at the University of Tennessee and Florida State assessed whether alcohol intoxication and/or cannabis use by college-age men in a[Read More…]
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Traveling by Car Uses Most Energy
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2014. Fuel economy must improve 57 percent in order for light-duty vehicles to match the current energy efficiency of commercial airline flights, says a University of Michigan researcher. Michael Sivak, a research professor at the U-M Transportation Research Institute, examined recent trends in the amount of energy[Read More…]
Offshore Corporate Profits: The Only Thing ‘Trapped’ Is Tax Revenue
Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2014. Trapped offshore profits are neither overseas nor trapped. Rather, they are accounting illusions that provide multinational corporations yet another loophole to skirt taxes, according to a new report released today by the Center for American Progress. The report disproves arguments that claim that there is a large[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on Groundbreaking Federal School Discipline Guidance
Key Tool Issued to Help End School-To-Prison Pipeline WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 8, 2014. The Department of Education and Department of Justice today released federal guidance to assist schools in administering discipline in a nondiscriminatory way and to provide alternatives to overly punitive school discipline practices. In the guidance, the agencies have stated[Read More…]
