Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2013. An EPI briefing paper released yesterday, Raising the Federal Minimum Wage To $10.10 Would Give Working Families, And The Overall Economy, A Much-Needed Boost, looks at the impacts of raising the minimum wage as proposed in the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013. EPI Economic Analyst David Cooper[Read More…]
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Economic Policy Institute Releases Technical Analysis of Congressional Progressive Caucus Back to Work Budget
Budget alternative would boost GDP growth by 5.7 percentage points, target full economic recovery by 2015 Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2013. The Economic Policy Institute Policy Center released its analysis of the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ Back to Work budget. The analysis, by Andrew Fieldhouse and Rebecca Thiess, outlines the budget’s fiscal and[Read More…]
Changes in U.S. Population Coming Sooner Than Expected
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2013. A major cultural and geographic divide is emerging between Americans under age 35 and over 50, according to University of Michigan demographer William Frey. “More than 70 percent of today’s baby boomers and seniors are white, and they grew up during a time when the[Read More…]
Report: Two-Thirds of Depleted Fish Stocks Rebound Under Federal Fisheries Law
Commercial Revenues from Rebuilt Species Up 92%, a $585 Million Annual Value NEW YORK, N.Y. –(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2013 – Sixty-four percent of once-overfished, monitored fish stocks nationwide have been rebuilt or made significant progress thanks to additional protections added to the federal fisheries law in 1996, according to a report[Read More…]
Murray and Ryan Budgets: Careful Stewardship Versus Mishandling of Environment, Health and Energy
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2013 – Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) released starkly contrasting proposals for the Fiscal 2014 Federal Budget Resolution this week. Franz Matzner, associate director of government affairs for the Natural Resources Defense Council, issued this statement on the[Read More…]
Friends of the Earth Statement on the Progressive Caucus Budget Proposal
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2013. Friends of the Earth Tax Analyst Ben Schreiber provided the following statement in support of the House Progressive Caucus’s release of the Back to Work Budget today: “If you listen to the budget debate in Washington too long, you almost start to believe that austerity is[Read More…]
Video – Duke’s Stanley Hauerwas: Pope Francis’ Election Signals Solidarity With the Poor
Stanley Hauerwas was my ethics teacher at Notre Dame. Never could remember my name. I was always "Mr. Kerpalinski" or something like that. I remember him well. Brilliant. I did my best to keep up in class. From Duke University: Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological[Read More…]
How Will Pope Francis Wear the Shoes of the Fisherman?
Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, S.J., in 2008. (Wikipedia) Updated at 11:49 a.m. to reflect that Pope Francis is not the first non-European pope ever, as the original commentary erroneously stated. How will Pope Francis wear the Shoes of the Fisherman? Will the example of this pope, a friend of the poorest[Read More…]
Ryan Budget Includes Devastating Health Care Cost Increases for Seniors
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2013. An analysis released yesterday by the Center for American Progress finds that like last year, Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) misguided budget blueprint would not only create a death spiral—in which less-healthy beneficiaries leave the traditional Medicare plan, causing premiums to rise and resulting in more beneficiaries[Read More…]
George Will’s Revisionist Watergate History (Media Matters)
George Will is rewriting history. American history. Watergate history. Will the Washington Post hold him accountable? From MediaMatters.org: George Will is under fire for distorting the history of Watergate from an expert source — Richard Ben-Veniste, chief of the Watergate task force. Will, in a March 6 column, deceptively portrayed Robert Bork[Read More…]
