Month: April 2018

Cabrini-Green

Ben Carson Should Follow the Example of Former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne and Experience Life in Public Housing

OREGON—(ENEWSPF)—April 26, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser Two things have been made perfectly clear by the Trump Administration. First, only the wealthy deserve a ‘real’ tax break and second, poor Americans are being held back by receiving public assistance. Without government subsidies, many more of ‘these’ people would be working and[Read More…]

Senator Dick Durbin

Senator Durbin Statement On Judiciary Committee Passage Of Bill To Protect Special Counsel Investigation

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—April 26, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser Senator Dick Durbin, a member of the Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after the Committee voted 14-7 to pass bipartisan legislation to protect the investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller: “Senators of both parties have made comments in the press that the Special[Read More…]

Western Environmental Law Center

Court Case Leads Bureau of Land Management to Defer Oil and Gas Leases Covering Over 100,000 Acres in Montana

Great Falls, Montana—(ENEWSPF)—April 26, 2018 Contact: Kyle Tisdel, Western Environmental Law Center Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management in Montana deferred all 223 parcels subject to an oil and gas lease sale planned for June 12. The decision to postpone the lease sale results from a court decision last month[Read More…]

CDC Milestone Tracker for Autism

Autism Prevalence Slightly Higher in CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network

Findings based on autism tracking in 11 US communities Atlanta, GA—(ENEWSPF)—April 26, 2018 Contact: CDC Media Relations About 1 in 59 eight -year-old children in 11 communities across the United States were identified as having autism in 2014, according to a report published today in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly[Read More…]

Mellen Family and health insuarnce

Peak Health Plan Premiums Give Rise To Activism — And Unconventional Solutions

Charlottesville, VA—(ENEWSPF)—April 26, 2018 By: Rachel Bluth When Garnett and Dave Mellen sent their 19-year-old daughter, Gita, off to college an hour away at Virginia Commonwealth University last fall, they didn’t expect to follow her. But in November, the family received notice that its monthly health insurance premium in Charlottesville[Read More…]

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