Posts tagged politics
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS
FACT: Women who voted for President Obama made up 29 percent—nearly one-third—of the electorate.
In the 2012 election, women made their voices heard in record numbers. Now it’s time to determine the agenda. We asked women from around the country what’s on their agenda the next four years. This is what they had to say.
(Source: americanprogress.org)
FACT: U.S. infrastructure spending is now more than $129 billion per year short of required levels.
Cartoon by Nick Anderson, the Cartoonist Group
Yet another reason to support paid family and medical leave: 66.3 percent U.S. new mothers with a bachelor’s degree or more are able to take paid maternity leave but, but just 18.5 percent of new moms with less than a high school diploma had access to paid leave after the birth of a child.
One reason to support merit selection and retention elections: It would help curb the huge influx of cash into political judicial elections.
Sandy was just the latest in a string of extreme weather, there were a record-high 14 weather events in 2011 that caused at least $1 billion each in damages. How to prevent future “Frankenstorms” after the jump.
See all of those red counties? They were effected by at least one extreme weather event that caused over $1 billion in damage in 2011-12.
Just in case you forgot!
