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Student parents face shrinking child care funding at community colleges
The American Association of University Women published a new report on Thursday which highlights the chief barrier that student parents at community colleges face in completing their degrees or transferring to a four-year institution: access to affordable child care. Meanwhile, the amount of federal funding devoted to federal child care grants for student…
Advocate: GOP-backed ‘workplace flexibility’ bill is designed to kill overtime pay
The House of Representatives passed a Republican-sponsored bill on Wednesday evening purporting to offer greater flexibility to working families, but the bill has been vehemently opposed by women’s groups and labor unions who say the only “flexibility” offered by the bill is given to the employers and not the employees.…
Term limits ‘encourage legislative myopia’ and jeopardize fiscal health: study
Conservatives have pushed for term limits to rein in government largesse and a majority of Americans support the idea. But the cure could be worse than the disease. Research by Jeff Cummins, a political science professor at California State University in Fresno, found that term limits for legislators promoted government…
Nanotech researcher: ‘Everything is possible’ in new brain treatments
Raw Story reported Tuesday on a new technique pioneered by researchers at Florida International University for treating HIV by acting directly on the brain, delivering medicine across the blood-brain barrier through the use of nanoparticles. Wednesday, we spoke to Florida International University researcher Sakhrat Khizroev about the breakthrough and its…
Disclosing donors hurts political attack ads, but keeping them secret hurts worse: study
Supporters of the DISCLOSE Act now have empirical evidence to back up their claims, thanks to a study published April in American Politics Research. “Despite the rise of anonymity in political advertising, there has been little empirical work examining the effects of disclosure of donors on the persuasiveness of campaign…
Minnesota judge dismisses lawsuit seeking to eliminate public funding for abortion care
A Minnesota judge dismissed a lawsuit on Thursday evening filed in November 2012 by an anti-choice couple “on behalf” of Minnesota taxpayers that sought to eliminate all state insurance coverage of abortion services. The order, issued by District Court Judge Kathleen R. Gearin, found that Minnesota’s case law on this…
Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action in U.S.: study
The United States has failed to take action to mitigate climate change thanks in part to the large number of religious Americans who believe the world has a set expiration date. Research by David C. Barker of the University of Pittsburgh and David H. Bearce of the University of Colorado…
Canadian Minister promoting the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline: ‘Our objective is to have zero serious spills’
Though the State Department officially closed the final comment period for the final stretch of the Keystone XL pipeline earlier this week, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver continued to make the rounds to press for approval and public acceptance of the controversial project in New York City this…
Labor rights lawyer: ‘Political winds blowing the right way’ to pass ENDA
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is set to be reintroduced before both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday. The legislation would put into place federal protections for LGBT people in the workplace, making it illegal to fire or otherwise discriminate against a person because of their sexual…
Atheists shocked at exclusion from bombing memorial service
The Harvard Humanist Community was shocked Thursday when their members were, in the carefully-chosen words of New York Times best-selling author Greg M. Epstein, “blown off” and excluded from an inter-faith memorial ceremony for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. “We have friends and family who are in the…
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