BIRDSBORO, PA–(ENEWSPF)–August 23, 2012. The largest group of progressive veterans in America, with 220,000 members, is taking issue with Congressman Jim Gerlach’s contention that Iraq War Veteran and child of immigrants, Manan Trivedi, is “foreign” to the 6th Congressional District. Trivedi is challenging Gerlach for Congress this year. “Manan Trivedi[Read More…]
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Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka AFL-CIO Working Families Support Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Policy to Support the American Dream Has Been Used Since 1971 Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 23, 2012. The AFL-CIO strongly disagrees with the contention of a group of 10 immigration agents that upholding President Obama’s policy toward young, aspiring U.S. citizens who arrived in this country as children is in any way[Read More…]
Sierra Club Statement On the Romney-Ryan Energy Plan
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 23, 2012. Today, in New Mexico, Mitt Romney released details about his energy plan. Romney’s plan rehashes the reckless Big Oil and Big Coal priorities he has pushed for months, ending numerous public health safeguards, shredding the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, throwing open public lands and[Read More…]
New Economic Policy Institute Report on Job Losses
Nearly 77 Percent of Total Job Losses Are in U.S Manufacturing Sector; High-Tech Manufacturing Hit Hardest; Every Congressional District Suffers Losses Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–August 23, 2012. More than 2.7 million American jobs—2.1 million of them in manufacturing—have been lost or eliminated since 2001, due to the United States’ mushrooming trade deficit[Read More…]
New Report Finds Students of Color Are Being Shortchanged–Schools Spend $334 More on White Students than on Students of Color
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 22, 2012. On a press call today with Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA), the Center for American Progress unveiled a new report that explores the racial inequities in state and local funding that persist in our nation’s schools. According to the study, called “Unequal Education,” schools across the nation continue to[Read More…]
NARAL Pro-Choice America Calls on Romney-Ryan Ticket to Take a Real Stand on Behalf of Women
National reproductive rights group challenges the presumed GOP presidential ticket to stand up for women Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 21, 2012. Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, called the Republican platform committee’s opposition to abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, heartless and implored Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul[Read More…]
National Organization for Women Calls on Romney and Ryan to Renounce Republican Party Platform Policy on Abortion Care
Statement of National Organization for Women (NOW) President Terry O’Neill Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 21, 2012 Today, the Republican Party demonstrated again why Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are wrong for women in the U.S. The party’s committee platform approved an anti-abortion plank that champions a human life amendment to the U.S.[Read More…]
No Gold Medal Here: U.S. is Lagging Behind Global Competitors in Commitment to Education, New Study Finds
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 21, 2012. In an era when the next generation will be expected to compete for jobs in a global economy, America’s commitment to education is waning while the growing economies of China and India are investing more than ever, according to a new report released today. The report,[Read More…]
Chain of Violence: Study Shows Impact on Palestinian and Israeli Children
ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(ENEWSPF)–August 21, 2012. Children exposed to ethnic and political violence in the Middle East are more aggressive than other children, a new study shows. And the younger children are, the more strongly they are affected, in a “chain of violence” that goes from political and ethnic strife, to[Read More…]
New Report: America Trashes Forty Percent of Food Supply
As Food Prices Rise, NRDC Offers Tips to Cut Food Waste from Farm to Table NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 21, 2012 – Americans are throwing away 40 percent of food in the U.S., the equivalent of $165 billion in uneaten food each year, according to a new analysis by the Natural Resources[Read More…]
