Month: April 2016

White House Fact Sheet: During National Reentry Week, Reducing Barriers to Reentry and Employment for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals

President Obama Establishes Federal Interagency Reentry Council Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2016.  An estimated 70 million or more Americans have some kind of criminal record.  Each year, more than 600,000 individuals are released from Federal and State prisons, and millions more are released each year from local jails. Promoting the rehabilitation[Read More…]

Remarks by President Obama to College Reporters, April 28, 2016

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2016 – 3:53 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  I hear there’s some hotshot journalists here.  Josh was speaking for me, and I wanted to make sure he was getting it right. How’s it going, everybody?  Are you guys having an interesting time here? AUDIENCE:  Yes! THE PRESIDENT:  Was[Read More…]

Announcing May 2016 Programs at Thorn Creek Nature Center

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—April 29, 2016.  Spring beauties are poking their little white and pink heads out, the greens of the wild leeks and onions are becoming more and more visible in the floodplains and the leaf buds are looking forward to opening as warm weather becomes a reality. The woodland[Read More…]

Rally on Monday, May 2: Chicagoans to Support Resolution at Boeing Shareholder Meeting to Increase Transparency in Arms Sales to Israel

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—April 29, 2916.  On May 2, at 8:15 a.m. on the south steps of Chicago’s Field Museum, five Boeing Company shareholders will attend the annual meeting to vote for and speak in support of a resolution which will require that the corporation prepare a report detailing its arms sales to[Read More…]

Twenty-Five Miami-Area Defendants Charged with Submitting $26 Million in False Claims to the Medicare Part D Program

FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2016.  Charges were filed today against 25 Miami-area defendants in three separate cases for their alleged participation in various schemes to defraud Medicare of approximately $26 million in false claims through the Medicare Part D program. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division,[Read More…]

DoD Releases Department-wide Strategy to Prevent Retaliation Associated with Reporting Sexual Assault or Harassment

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2016.  Today, the Department of Defense released a department-wide strategy to improve the way it provides support to service members who experience retaliation and to align prevention and response efforts across the services. The DoD Retaliation Prevention and Response Strategy (RPRS) provides support to individuals who experience[Read More…]

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