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Reports from Public Policy Newsletter for 2025-06-11 ( 11 items )  
Bad Online Advice Leads Majority of Americans to Make Regrettable Financial Decisions, CFP Board Survey Reveals (10)
WASHINGTON, June 11 (TNSrpt) -- The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards issued the following news release: * * * Bad Online Advice Leads Majority of Americans to Make Regrettable Financial Decisions, CFP Board Survey Reveals Only 2 in 5 Americans Believe Online Financial Information Is "in Their Best Interests" * Misinformation about money is everywhere online, and Americans are paying the price for it. CFP Board's latest research report, Steering Clear of Financial Misinformatio more PR

Better Markets Report: SEC Must Hold Individuals Accountable for Corporate Misconduct (10)
WASHINGTON, June 10 [Category: Financial Services] (TNSrpt) -- Better Markets, an organization that says it promotes pro-market, pro-business and pro-growth policies to help build a better financial system, posted the following news release: * * * Report: The SEC Must Hold Individuals Accountable for Corporate Misconduct WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Benjamin Schiffrin, Better Markets' Director of Securities Policy, issued the following statement in connection with Better Markets' new Report, "The SEC M more PR

CALSTART's June 2025 Market Update Signals Progress in Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Deployment (10)
PASADENA, California, June 11 (TNSrpt) -- CALSTART, an organization that says it works with member companies to build a clean transportation industry, issued the following news release: * * * CALSTART's June 2025 Market Update Signals Progress in Zero-Emission (ZE) Medium- and Heavy-Duty (MHD) Vehicle Deployment; Cautions That the Pace Must Double to Meet Federal Climate Goals State leadership has never been more critical to continue the momentum of zero-emission truck (ZET) adoption * CALS more PR

Chicago's Speed Cameras Issued $90.9M in Tickets in 2024, Low-Income Drivers Hit Hardest (10)
CHICAGO, Illinois, June 11 (TNSrep) -- The Illinois Policy Institute issued the following news release on June 10, 2025: * * * Chicago's speed cameras issued $90.9M in tickets in 2024, low-income drivers hit hardest The city's 165 cameras collected $11.3M less from drivers in 2024, so Mayor Johnson is adding 50 new cameras expecting to get back that money * On the campaign trail, Brandon Johnson pledged to phase out Chicago's automated speed cameras. As mayor, he's adding 50 new speed camer more PR

Dramatic Improvements in Mental Health Reported After CVT's Care in Ethiopia (10)
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 10 (TNSrpt) -- The Center for Victims of Torture issued the following news release: * * * Dramatic Improvements in Mental Health Reported after CVT's Care in Ethiopia The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) is pleased to share a new evidence brief that shows nearly all clients reporting had significant mental health improvements after participating in rehabilitative care sessions at centers in Amhara, Gambella and Tigray, Ethiopia. This underscores the important role more PR

First-ever Airborne Toxin Detected in Western Hemisphere (10)
BOULDER, Colorado, June 10 (TNSrpt) -- The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences issued the following news: * * * First-ever airborne toxin detected in Western Hemisphere A field campaign on an Oklahoma feedlot to measure aerosols in the atmosphere yielded surprising results * Once in a while, scientific research resembles detective work. Researchers head into the field with a hypothesis and high hopes of finding specific results, but sometimes, there's a twist in the more PR

New Research Explores How Private Equity Firms Profit From Outsourcing in K-12 Education (10)
CHICAGO, Illinois, June 11 (TNSrep) -- The Private Equity Stakeholder Project issued the following news: * * * New research explores how private equity firms profit from outsourcing in K-12 education A new report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (https://pestakeholder.org/reports/private-equity-in-public-schools-outsourcing-in-k-12-education/)(PESP) analyzes the role of private equity-owned companies in outsourcing public school jobs across the U.S. As federal investment in public  more PR

New Sierra Club Paper Calls On Investors To Confront Climate Change As Systemic Financial Risk (10)
WASHINGTON, June 10 [Category: Environment] (TNSrpt) -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * New Sierra Club Paper Calls On Investors To Confront Climate Change As Systemic Financial Risk * A new white paper released today by the Sierra Club challenges conventional approaches to climate-conscious investing and urges institutional investors--particularly asset owners like pension funds--to confront climate change as a systemic financial threat to the global economy and lon more PR

Report Exposes Formosa Plastics (10)
WASHINGTON, June 11 (TNSrpt) -- Friends of the Earth issued the following news release on June 10, 2025: * * * Report Exposes Formosa Plastics A groundbreaking new report released today offers a comprehensive Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) analysis of Formosa Plastics Group (FPG), one of the world's largest petrochemical conglomerates. The report, Unchecked and Unaccountable: The Sustainability Crisis at Formosa Plastics Group, reveals systemic environmental violations and raises more PR

Study Reveals Significant Economic Impact of Housing Industry Labor Shortage (10)
WASHINGTON, June 10 [Category: Real Estate] (TNSrpt) -- The National Association of Home Builders posted the following news release: * * * New Study Reveals Significant Economic Impact of Housing Industry Labor Shortage * A landmark study released today from the Home Builders Institute (HBI), in collaboration with the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), examines the economic impact of the skilled labor shortage for the single-family home building sector. The findings indicate that  more PR

Triple Dipping: Budget Bill Raises Farm Subsidies for Wealthy Farmers by Billions of Dollars (10)
WASHINGTON, June 11 (TNSrep) -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following research: * * * Triple dipping: Budget bill raises farm subsidies for wealthy farmers by billions of dollars By Anne Schechinger In the past five years, some farmers across the country may have dipped into three types of taxpayer-funded federal farm support to collect a staggering $113.9 billion, according to EWG's newly updated Farm Subsidy Database (https://farm.ewg.org/?). And the House-passed budget rec more PR