Month: March 2013

Alliance for Retired Americans: Sequester Leaves Seniors in the Cold

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2013.  Across-the-board budget cuts that take effect today in the sequester will affect senior citizens across the country. The failure of the Senate to pass the American Family Economic Protection Act (S. 388), which would have raised revenue from the wealthiest Americans and corporations who send jobs[Read More…]

U.S. Department of Education Asks School Leaders to Initiate New Efforts to Reduce Gender-Based Violence

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2013.  The U.S. Department of Education yesterday issued a Dear Colleague letter to state school chiefs requesting immediate action to reduce gender-based violence in schools and to help ensure all students are safe. The letter and additional materials were released during a White House event on teen[Read More…]

United States: The Time has Come to Ban Landmines

Mine Ban Treaty Marks 14 Years Since Becoming International Law Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2013. The Obama administration, which is poised to make a decision on future US policy on landmines, should at long last embrace the ban on antipersonnel landmines on the Mine Ban Treaty’s 14th anniversary. “The United States[Read More…]

New Report: Outsized Political Influence of Wealthy and Corporate Interests Stack Deck Against Middle Class

New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2013. Yesterday, in the midst of Washington debates on the sequester and a minimum wage increase, national policy center Demos released a new paper that reveals the startling connection between political inequality and economic mobility:  As corporations and the donor class wield outsized influence through political[Read More…]

Sutter Vallejo Hospital Ordered to Stand Labor Board Trial

CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2013. The Sutter corporation’s Sutter Solano hospital in Vallejo has been ordered to stand trial on charges that it violated federal law in imposing immediate hundreds of dollars a month in higher healthcare costs for registered nurses, and, starting next year, eliminating all health coverage for nurses who[Read More…]

Florida State Lawmakers Will Consider Medical Marijuana Bill

TALLAHASSEE—(ENEWSPF)—March 1, 2013. State Sen. Jeff Clemens (D-Lake Worth) introduced a bill yesterday that would allow Floridians with debilitating medical conditions to legally obtain and use marijuana if their doctors recommend it. S.B. 1250, the Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act, would allow patients with certain qualifying medical conditions, or their[Read More…]

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