From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Write a letter at https://action.momsrising.org/lte/LTE_DREAMER/! BACKGROUND: MomsRising members like you have been speaking up on behalf of DREAMers and your voices are making a difference! We are closer than we have ever been to passing legislation … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Our hearts are broken. We’re angry and we’re fed up with our leaders’ failure to take meaningful action around gun safety and to keep our kids safe. At the very top of our #5Actions list this … Continued
From the League of Conservation Voters (https://www.lcv.org/): Right now, Trump’s allies in Congress are pushing THREE terrible anti-parks bills that could cause irreparable damage to our public lands. These bills seek to cement and expand the Trump administration’s unprecedented attacks … Continued
From the Community Action Association of Pennsylvania (http://www.thecaap.org): At the beginning of the week, we wrote about the affects the Trump Administration’s budget proposal would have on Community Action’s core funding, the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG). To read our … Continued
The purpose of this document is to illustrate the consequences of meeting the letter of the law on the various criteria for a map. We show that there are tradeoffs among criteria: being too compact leads to many split counties. … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): February 15, 2018 A new EPI paper by Rutgers Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Keefe finds that Pennsylvania’s public school teachers earn lower wages and lower total compensation (wages and benefits) when compared with similarly educated … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): For decades, our right to collectively negotiate a fair return on our work has been under attack. Whether it is so-called “right-to-work” laws, or legal attempts to undermine collective bargaining rights―corporate lobbyists seek to … Continued
Posted: 15 Feb 2018 08:13 AM PST at http://paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2018/02/edf-report-pa-oil-gas-methane-emissions.html Methane emissions from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas sites may be 522,400 tons a year rather than the 112,100 tons oil and gas companies report to the Department of Environmental Protection, according … Continued
About the Pennsylvania Council The Pennsylvania Council of Trout Unlimited (PATU) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with over 13,000 members, placed in 49 chapters across the Commonwealth. The mission of PATU is to conserve, protect, restore, and sustain Pennsylvania’s coldwater … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): In December, Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced a proposed rule, which would allow restaurant owners to pocket the tips of millions of tipped workers. EPI estimates that the new rule would result … Continued