World Affairs

Support for the Beyond the Border Action Plan

Canada Institute Launches Major Initiative WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Wilson Center’s Canada Institute has launched a major initiative to measure the progress of yesterday’s “Beyond the Border” agreement unveiled by President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The long-awaited Agreement’s objective is to guard the long-term economic well-being and security [...]

US Government

TV Ads Call on President Obama to Slow Legal Immigration Until Los Angeles is Working Again

President Obama Continues Admitting Millions of Legal Immigrants and Temporary Foreign Workers To Take Californians’ Jobs Despite High Unemployment  LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) has launched a TV campaign in Los Angeles calling for lower levels of legal immigration and temporary foreign workers until Californians are working again.  [...]

Economics

Is the Economy In Danger of Collapsing?

This year, the US will be in more debt than ever despite the promise of reducing the national deficit that Obama made when he was first elected. So many things are happening on a global scale at the moment. Unemployment rates are still high enough where people are looking for work from home jobs for [...]

PRB Report Examines U.S. Recession’s Continuing Social and Economic Toll

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Since the recent U.S. recession’s official end in 2009, poverty has increased; homeownership, home values, and income are still declining; and blacks and Hispanics continue to be hardest hit, according to a new report by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB). PRB’s “Post-Recession Update on U.S. Social and Economic Trends,” [...]

Social Issues

Labor Department Seeking to Expand Job Opportunities for the Disabled

US Labor Department seeks to improve job opportunities for Americans with disabilities by setting historic hiring goal for federal contractors and subcontractors WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The U.S. Department of Labor is proposing a new rule that would require federal contractors and subcontractors to set a hiring goal of having 7 percent of their [...]

Environmental Issues

Rich Country Climate Plans Threaten Economic Growth in Developing Countries

DURBAN, South Africa, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – A new report – Restricting Growth: The Impact of Industrialized Country Climate Strategies on the World’s Poor – will be launched by World Growth at a press conference today at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban. The report reveals how proposals on land use and forestry advanced [...]

Other Political News

European Parliament Welcomes Back Ambassador of Peace Prem Rawat

BRUSSELS, Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The 1st Vice President of the European Parliament, the Honorable Gianni Pittella, hosted an international conference titled: “Peace and Well-being, addressing the founding values of the European Union” on November 28. Against a backdrop of international uncertainty, including riots in many European cities, government change and continued unrest in the [...]

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Newt Gingrich Meets With Conservative Leaders

| December 8, 2011

MANASSAS, Va., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich took his battle for the Republican presidential nomination directly to 63 of the nation’s most influential conservative leaders during a two-and-a-half hour meeting of uncommitted conservatives hosted by ConservativeHQ.com Chairman Richard Viguerie and Diana Banister of Shirley and Banister Public Affairs. [...]

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Ukraine’s President: New Election Law Complies With Democratic Standards

| December 8, 2011

KYIV, Ukraine, December 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — “Domestic and foreign experts participated in the developing of the new law [on the parliamentary elections in Ukraine - ed.], it meets global democratic standard and honors respective international commitments,” stated the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych today while signing the law regulating parliamentary elections in Ukraine passed [...]

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