(Washington D.C., Friday, March 1, 2019) – When World War II broke out 76 years ago, more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were stripped of their rights and imprisoned. Actor George Takei and his...
AUDIO: Tom Smith, Executive Director, American Society of Civil Engineers
(Reston, VA, Friday, February 15, 2019) – Recent polling from POLITICO and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health said that increasing infrastructure spending is one of the top priorities for Americans for the new Congress....
AUDIO: Diane Randall, Executive Secretary, Friends Committee on National Legislation
(Washington D.C., Wednesday, February 13, 2019) – With the 116th Congress now gaveled in and agendas being set, there are several important priorities that the new Congress will need to tackle in 2019. Domestic priorities: Reform...
AUDIO: Marlysa D. Gamblin, Domestic Advisor for Policy and Programs, Bread for the World Institute
(Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 12, 2019) – February is Black History Month, and while hunger and poverty declined among African Americans in 2017, food insecurity has still not dropped enough this past year to match the...
AUDIO: Greg Cunningham, Vice President and Director, Conservation Law Foundation’s Clean Energy and Climate Change Program
(Boston, MA, Thursday, February 7, 2019) – New England has enough power to weather even the most intense cold snaps. Rather than build polluting, expensive fracked gas pipelines – that will swiftly become obsolete – we...
Viernes 1 de Febrero de 2019 Estimado Director de Asuntos Públicos, Communities Against Hate (Comunidades Contra el Odio) es una iniciativa nacional que trabaja documentando e identificando actos de odio, colectando historias personales de odio...
Friday, February 1, 2019 Dear PSA Director, Communities Against Hate, a national initiative working to document and address hate incidents, collects personal stories of hate and provides support services for those in need. Hate incidents...
AUDIO: Dr. Charlotte Pratt, Program Director and Deputy Branch Chief, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(Bethesda, MD, Wednesday, January 30, 2019) – Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. One in four people in the U.S. dies of heart disease each year. A risk factor...
AUDIO: Timothy Shriver, National Commission Co-Chair, Chairman of the Special Olympics, and Co-Founder and Chair of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
(Washington, DC, Tuesday, January 29, 2019) – A new report being released by the Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development asserts that our nation is at a turning point. We now understand...
AUDIO: Tom Smith, Executive Director, American Society of Civil Engineers
(Reston, VA, Friday, January 11, 2019) – Recent polling from POLITICO and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health said that increasing infrastructure spending is one of the top priorities for Americans for the new Congress....