by Madeline Fox | Feb 25, 2015 | Living
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers need to move forward on a comprehensive, long-term surface transportation reauthorization bill, business and transportation leaders said Wednesday. With less than 100 days left until the existing surface transportation authorization...
by Ashley Gilmore | Feb 24, 2015 | Living, Politics
WASHINGTON — Women veterans will be at the forefront of the Disabled American Veterans agenda for the 2016 budget year, National Commander Ronald Hope said Tuesday. In a joint session of Senate and House committees on Veterans Affairs, Hope listed the legislative...
by Medha Imam | Feb 24, 2015 | Living, Politics
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers proposed a bipartisan bill Tuesday that would allocate $1.5 billion to strengthen the fight against global slavery and human trafficking. “This will require U.S. leadership if we want to get rid of this grave injustice in the world,” said...
by Haley Hinkle | Feb 24, 2015 | Living
WASHINGTON — Senators are looking for ways to support victims of human trafficking in the United States as they move toward a likely vote next week on legislation to curb abuses. The Senate Judiciary Committee heard first from female senators who have worked to combat...
by Adam Mintzer | Feb 24, 2015 | Living
WASHINGTON — Following multiple shootings involving police and the public, demonstrators across the nation raised their hands, clutched their throats and put on hoods demanding political action to ease community-police relations. On Tuesday, a special task force began...
by Tara Longardner | Feb 23, 2015 | Living, National Security
By Tara Longardner WASHINGTON – The issue of illiteracy has moved into the cyber world. Digital illiteracy affects the elderly, poor and those with limited English proficiency and puts them more at risk of cybersecurity breaches, experts said Monday. In terms...
by Haley Hinkle | Feb 23, 2015 | Health & Science, Living
By Haley Hinkle WASHINGTON—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to launch a new system for analyzing the effectiveness of medical devices after they hit the market and are put in use across the country. The system, planned in collaboration with Brookings...
by Madeline Fox | Feb 18, 2015 | Living
By Madeline Fox WASHINGTON – Sexual violence in war-torn regions is a known problem, but less attention is paid to the severe issue of the lingering peacetime gender inequality that it reinforces, said London professor Jelke Boesten. In a panel at the U.S. Institute...
by Ashley Gilmore | Feb 11, 2015 | Living, Politics
By Ashley Gilmore WASHINGTON— The United States is making large cuts in funding and programming to reduce gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is a major blow because it’s the single biggest government donor, Marcy Hersh of Refugees...
by Nancy Wang | Feb 11, 2015 | Living, Politics
By Nancy Wang WASHINGTON—Families headed by never married single parents are the least advantaged, the least benefited and the least protected population — and they need help, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution told House subcommittee Wednesday. “Not...
by Bailey Williams | Feb 11, 2015 | Living
By Bailey Williams WASHINGTON–House Republicans pressed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro Wednesday to admit that the Federal Housing Administration doesn’t have enough capital reserves, but Castro was adamant that the mortgage insurer was on...
by Madeline Fox | Feb 11, 2015 | Living
By Madeline Fox WASHINGTON — Congress must move quickly to pass a long-term, robust federal surface transportation bill, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Wednesday. Foxx, speaking before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, urged action on...
